Wizards, Lawnmowers, and Hovercrafts

Creativity. Perspective. People, Products, and Products. Mash em together with magic and get real life, practical advice.

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1. wizards lawnmowers hovercrafts with jack mcdade
2. @Jackmcdade
5. i design and build stuff.
6. yes, i'm a designer & developer
7. Laracon
8. statamic
9. We are WilDerborN
10. so that’s me. onwards!
12. act 1 creativity
13. full service marketing agency?
14. creative technical
15. creativity = resource
16. = skill technical ability
17. do you make things? or stuff?
18. then You (yes you) Are creative.
19. Creativity is…
20. our brains doing what they do. — scientific fact
21. Creativity is a renewable resource.
22. but it can run dry.
23. burn out.
24. depression.
25. youtube comments.
26. programming is a lot like storywriting
27. brandon sanderson
28. writeaboutdragons.com
29. coding + Writing flex exact same muscles.
30. creativity is your mana 61 hours 19 bugs Launch Week 15 65
33. managing your creative mana pool
34. with task pairing
35. coding + Writing regen 0%
36. this is why writing documentation sucks.
37. coding + design regen +25%
38. coding + photography regen +75%
39. coding + lawn mowing regen +250%
40. find your contrast
41. refilling your creative mana pool
42. disengage.
43. Change perspectives.
44. re-engage your brain elsewhere.
49. you must allow yourself to escape
50. act 2 perspective
51. back to the writing analogy.
52. few things inspire change like perspective
53. learn from masters
54. 18 King since 2005… 2 Martin 20 sanderson
55. “How the f— do you write so many books so fast?” “I work 3-4 hours every day, and I try to get 6 pages done, and get them fairly clean.” George r.r. Martin steven king
56. “You don’t ever have a day when you sit down there and it’s like constipation – you write a sentence and you hate the sentence, and you check your email and you wonder if you had any talent after all and maybe you should have been a plumber? Don’t you have days like that?” George r.r. Martin steven king
57. No. George r.r. Martin steven king
58. storytime! it’s
59. The hovercraft
60. Nasa-class phoenix az3 hovercraft
62. don't cling so hard you become a fool.
63. act 3 People, process, and product
64. (the practical advice part)
65. People
66. always assume there’s another side To the story. 1
67. don't be defensive. listen. 2
68. don’t gossip 3
69. treat others how you want to be treated 4
70. culture change can be middle out 5
71. Process
72. 6 failure is an event not a person.
73. 7 if you're stuck change perspectives.
74. 8 if you can't decide… nudge the donkey.
76. 9 be realistic pace yourself
77. product
78. 10 present Truth
79. superlatives &Hyperbole Avoid 11
82. like a customer. actually use it 12
83. the tl;dr
84. be kind
85. tell the truth
86. look for new perspectives
87. this isn’t me.
88. fin
89. Stranger Things https://netflix.com/strangerthings Brandon Sanderson & creative muscle flexing http://bit.ly/2azYCm7 Steven King & George R.R. Martin Interview http://bit.ly/28QY2Lg Burden’s Ass (Nudge My Donkey) http://bit.ly/2ayOd8F links