Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

Video: The anti-creativity checklist

Scott McLeod

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Here is Youngme Moon’s awesome anti-creativity checklist. How many boxes can you check for your school leaders?

Moon is the author of Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd, which is nearing the top of my reading stack!

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A woman, resembling a paranormal investigator, holds a rectangular glass dish above her eyes, which are illuminated by light shining through the dish in a dark setting.

Big Think Books

Why don’t Americans trust experts? Just ask a paranormal investigator.

For his new book, “The Ghost Lab,” Matt Hongoltz-Hetling spent time with paranormal investigators to understand their relationship with science and society.

Black-and-white portrait of Andrew Mayne centered on a collage background featuring sharks on the left and a hand holding a magician’s hat and wand on the right.

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The Andrew Mayne interview: How to succeed as a polymath

The outrageously accomplished magician-inventor-author chats to Big Think about fear, multitasking, and successful work-life reinvention.

A geometric collage with partial photos of two people, a delivery robot labeled "prime" inspired by Amazon robotics, and vintage map textures, overlaid by the text "THE NIGHTCRAWLER.

Business

A deep dive into Amazon robotics and AI

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

A failure of a paper airplane constructed from crumpled paper.

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How to find success with the 4 conditions of “intelligent failure”

“It is natural to want to avoid failure. But when we avoid failure, we also avoid discovery and accomplishment.”

A man with a beard and short hair smiles at the camera; the background features abstract green, purple, and black-and-white graphic patterns—capturing a confident presence that suggests he may share valuable leadership advice.

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The Scott Woody Interview: The pros and cons of being “memoryless”

The cofounder and CEO of red-hot billing platform Metronome unpacks his leadership journey.

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