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Entries from February 2008

Self imposed limitations - Small Teams

February 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Following up on the idea that limits we put on ourselves can fuel creativity, Tony Morgan has posted the following quote from Jason Fried, cofounder of 37signals (Wired, 25th Feb 2008):
"Remember — size does matter: A small group of 10 great people will outproduce, outwork, outthink a large group of 50 average people."
Is sticking to […]

Tags: Creativity · Management

Liberating Ideas

February 27th, 2008 · No Comments

As an architect I spend a fair amount of time presenting. Over time I’ve gathered together a number of tools and resources to help me create them. You can find the ones I use regularly on the "Liberating Ideas" Squidoo lens here. It would be great to hear about yours - feel free to share […]

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Self imposed limitations

February 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The idea that imposing limits (or constraints) fuels creativity has cropped up a few times recently. First time was in Garr Reynold’s book on presentations. Second time was in an Unclutterer post on writing. I’m not sure why this should be a surprising concept to me as we have been using self imposed limitations (or patterns) […]

Tags: Architecture · software