A motto for our times: “Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul. ” – from The Machine Stops, by E.M. Forster, a pretty good prediction of the future from 1909.

mobaganda* – world’s simplest event invitation website. No registration, no nonsense.

Nice overview of the sustainable design process (PDF). From the upcoming book, Design is the Problem

“The important thing is not to stop questioning

Innovation is “invention that sells” – Larry Leifer

YouTube – IF Mode – Pacific Cycles – finally, a full-size, cool-looking folding bike

Interesting: because we take in so much more information than we realize consciously, we make decisions based on feelings, not thoughts. “Traditional models of affect posit that … first we decide what we think, and then we decide how we feel about it. However, the evidence … indicates that the real order of things is likely to be the reverse of this… what we feel about something tells us what we think.”

A good summary of 10 creativity “paradoxes” from Csikszentmihalyi’s Creativity, which I took notes on earlier.

It’s a trap! Off to the woods! “This is a stunning moment in economic history…today, the more we earn, the more we work, since the opportunity cost of not working is all the greater (and since the higher we go, the more relatively deprived we feel).”

I do a lot of staring into space, so this was good news: “[Scientists have] demonstrated that daydreaming is a fundamental feature of the human mind – so fundamental, in fact, that it’s often referred to as our “default” mode of thought. Many scientists argue that daydreaming is a crucial tool for creativity, a thought process that allows the brain to make new associations and connections…’If your mind didn’t wander, then you’d be largely shackled to whatever you are doing right now'”