Brazilian graphic designer Felipe Kaizer’s thoughts on design responsibility, and design in politics:
To be political is then to righteously serve a worthwhile cause. We can see here how politics is understood: purely as mankind’s way to organize itself in order to face ever new problems. Hence politics is merely a collective form of solving problems [...]

More on daydreaming as a way of problem solving, the daydreaming mind is far more active than many believe it to be:
By most measures, we spend about a third of our time daydreaming, yet our brain is unusually active during these seemingly idle moments. Left to its own devices, our brain activates several areas associated [...]

Ten variations of the iconic Rubik’s Cube, including the “Pentamix” which looks to be a particular devious version of the puzzle.

Don’t underestimate the power of the daydream… also a possible explanation as why solutions to some problems present themselves when we least expect them to.
“People assume that when the mind wanders away it just gets turned off – but we show the opposite, that when it wanders, it turns on,” said Christoff, co-author of the [...]

Living aboard may boost creativity. This possibly makes for a good excuse to take an (extended) overseas holiday.
Across three studies the pair made the following findings: students who’d spent more time abroad were more likely to work out how to affix a candle to a wall without the wax spilling; those who spent more time [...]

A good manager is in-fact a servant and facilitator ensuring their “subordinates” are sufficiently resourced and removing all possible obstacles to productivity.
The word manager makes many people uncomfortable. It calls up the image of a bossman telling you what to do and forcing you to slave away at doing it. That is not effective management. [...]

“The basic unit of knowledge is a question.”
“The basic unit of knowledge is a question.” This is a common saying at Toyota, where hierarchical, authority-based leadership is eschewed in favor of responsibility-based leadership. Which is to say that people at the top of the corporate food-chain don’t drive all the decisions just because they sit [...]

Hopefully solving a problem that you have will also solve a problem that other people have.
Everything I’ve done over the years that’s worked out well – software, standards, writing – everything, without exception, was something I did for myself. I’ve done the other thing too: built things based on guesses about what people out there [...]

Tim Berners-Lee would like to see the Web becoming a repository of “partly formed ideas” that could eventually assist in solving some of humanity’s larger problems, by forming a “trail of thinking”, that people could progressively contribute thoughts to until, through collective thinking, a solution emerges.
It is an idea he refers to as “creative connectivity”.
“Now [...]

On Creativity, by Andy Rutledge at A List Apart.
How’s this for a definition of creativity?
Creativity has nothing at all to do with self-expression or flamboyancy. Aside from the simple ability to create things, the most important feature of creativity is a highly developed perception filter that is somewhat less common than we’re led to believe. [...]