Simplicity in Communication

Rick Rubin posits that omission is vital to creative expression.

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Daydreaming and Creativity

Stefan Van der Stigchel indicates that daydreaming may be an inefficient means of releasing creativity .

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Agile Developnent Creates Efficiency

Andy Wu researched the productivity of a Google hackathon, and discovered that Agile development methods improved productivity and efficiency, at the expense of muting the creative voices of individuals which spark exceptional innovation (or dead-end research).

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Inspiring Creative Minds

Inspired by Beloit College's 'Mindset List', Scott L. Newstok exhorts the power brokers to minimize their focus on testing and return to a liberal education which encourages critical thinking and creativity.

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Childhood Creativity and App Design

Phil Johnson reports that children are especially creative at designing apps . They lack the preconceptions that limit the designs developed by adults.

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Empowering Creativity

Stephen Herr comments on the value of unstructured assignments in education , something that has become less common in an age of standardized classroom curricula and evaluations.

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Where Good Ideas Come From

Steven Johnson's thesis in Where Good Ideas Come From is that interactions amid diversity causes new ideas to be applied. Throughout the book he uses the image of a vibrantly alive reef amid an ocean desert to represent the colonies of thinkers in cities (or now connected on the World Wide Web). Johnson extended Stuart Kauffman's concept of biological evolution to "adjacent possible" niches, applying the concept to technological evolution.

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Critical Thinking, Creativity and Communication

Ole Lensmar notes three skills that will help in software testing or in all aspects of life: critical thinking, creativity and communication.

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_{An odd thing about this article is that it also credits it as being "by Lorinda Brandon, Technical Evangelist at Smartbear Software."}