I have something very urgent to do, but instead I have found this, which kind of proves the point in a satisfyingly circular way. From Aaron Ausland’s blog, ‘Staying for Tea’
I don’t know if creativity is a finite thing, but I do know that once I started blogging and tweeting, I began using a greater measure of it for things of questionable value.
With accompanying cartoon entitled ‘Applied Creativity’ (and the blog post has loads more, allvery funny and too true…)
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