On the Creative Life

Pressure and space

If I close my eyes and picture the ideal creative conditions, I imagine spaces filled with depth and calm. While writing This Could Be Our Future, for example, I took several trips to a motel in the...

NOTHING KNOWING SOMETHING

There are three phases of matter: gas, liquid, and solid. There are three phases of creative work: nothing, knowing, and something. The three phases of matter are well understood. However, we fail to...

Dark Forests and the new internet

The text of a talk I gave remotely for the Sonar Festival in Barcelona this morning. My name is Yancey Strickler. Thank you for having me. Today I'm going to talk about ways we and society are both...