- Art and Problem Solving (My 12 Favorite Problems)
Creating and solving problems could take us busy forever. Let’s do it.
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- Technology and Creativity (My 12 Favorite Problems)
How to use technology and creativity to improve the ecosystem’s health? Just a draft, for now.
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- Ecosystem Health and Design (My 12 Favorite Problems)
There is no planet B. We must contribute to the ecosystem’s health by building a more sustainable society. Design is a solution.
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- Thinking and Communication (My 12 Favorite Problems)
Two essential qualities of human beings. How can we improve thinking and communication?
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- Learning and Health (My 12 Favorite Problems)
Learning, Teaching, Education, Knowledge, and Culture. Health and Habit making
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- Identity and Relationships (My 12 Favorite Problems)
This is hard, painful and I feel really uninspired.
I’ve learned my lesson, when I am in this mood I need to lower my ambitions.
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- My 12 Favorite Problems, Version 2
I am iterating on the 12 Favorite Problems Technique. I am merging a first iteration and two drafts coming from my notes.
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- The 12 Favorite Problems Method
Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, ‘How did he do it? He must be a genius!’
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- Structured Long-form writing by Integrating Multiple Perspectives
By making a structured inquiry on a topic, you can integrate multiple points of view in a longer article.
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- Thinking of quitting. It’s only a thought though.
How would I feel if I stopped now? I am terrified I could never write again. In the end, I have not written daily for decades. How would it be like to write weekly?
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- Where do you need a PKM system?
The “where” should be everywhere, where you add and retrieve information out of your PKB to write, think and create.
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- PKM, When? Always.
If you understand the power of PKM, and if you have a flexible and powerful system, you always need it. You need it in every phase of your creative process.
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- PKM for whom? A Short Answer.
Personal Knowledge Management can benefit everybody. If you think, you need PKM.
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- Why PKM? To Dance with Infinity
Use PKM to impact the World positively: observe, take notes of the many problems, and solve them. Share solutions to better futures.
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- Your identity drives you Personal Knowledge Management
Identify the building blocks of your creativity, compose them in workflows and build a creative network of tools to generate ideas.
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- Personal Knowledge Management, a short, structured definition
Capture, organize, develop, and share knowledge to be a proper citizen of the 21st Century and maybe the 22nd.
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- Compare Intention Against Execution
Learn how to improve in planning and building by comparing the intention against the execution.
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- From Zero to CREAZEE
CREAZEE Daily Writing Challenge April 2021, a Retrospective.
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- Discover your Audience by Talking to People
By talking to people, you practice being yourself, being the author or creator you are, and you will have chances to stand behind your creative choices.
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- Build a System To Build
To create a habit, you have to feel a certain amount of pain, but it’s not lethal. It’s not the end of the world. And the more you insist, the more you try, the more the pain becomes a joy.
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- Ideate and Curate(lla)
Keep on writing daily to generate new ideas. Establish continuity, little by little, every day, to build up complexity.
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- Education vs. Learning
Do not confuse education with learning: education is done to you; Learning happens in your brain. We need more learning and less education.
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- The Joy of Doing Nothing
When you are so lucky to have absolutely nothing to do. Just enjoy it.
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- Saving and Resuming a Thinking Session
We need to force us to reserve some time to close our thinking applications and saving the open thoughts.
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- Create to Feel Alive
Why do I write, facilitate, design, and build things? To feel alive.
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- Future Prompts
How can I make the activity of being curious about the future, not scary? How can I enjoy the process of imagining futures?
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- Make Your Work Easy to Perform
To be more effective in executing a task, consider splitting it into three parts: preparation, execution, conclusion.
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- The spur of the moment
Any time is a good time to write. Take the tiniest piece of a concept and write about it.
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- Continuity is there
The articles I wrote this week.
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- Morellino di Scansano
Alcohol is bad for health. Prove me wrong and I’ll invite you for a drink.
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- Give Me Endless Stories
I don’t like the end of stories. Why shall I interrupt being transported in another world and another time?
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- Write About your Fears, to Be Stronger
Writing contributes to making you more self-aware and better equipped to make sense of your experiences. It can be a great tool to research the causes of your feelings.
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- Do you want to lead better? Write
Avoid leading your team to confusion: write down your problem and illustrate a vision, a strategy, and a plan to solve it.
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- Dream Big, Build It Small, but Daily
Start now by doing a little thing, and keep on doing it, every day. You’ll reach the stars without even realizing it.
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- Plan Your Creativity
Planning is an activity bringing the future to the present. You cannot plan to be creative but to foster the conditions for you to be creative.
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- Write to Live Better
Write to remember, to evolve, to focus, to explain, to think better, to learn, to change, to keep track. Writing makes you a better human being.
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- From a Free-Flowing Draft to an Article
Review your spontaneous and unfiltered writing to extract exciting ideas and concepts to create a final draft to be published.
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- Free-Flowing Writing
Disconnect with your surroundings to enter into deep communication with your inner voice. A writing practice close to meditation promises wonders.
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- Create Once, Reuse Many but Wisely)
Write every day, feel the pain of the struggle, do it for several days. You will be able to write well even if you feel exhausted.
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- Dear Future Me, Prepare to Be CREAZEE, Again
Letter to my future self. Thoughts and questions about the CREAZEE Challenge and the forming community.
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- Creative Constraints Are Meant to Be Used Wisely
Constraints can help you focus on your creative work. But don’t use them as an end when their purpose is to be a means.
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- The Rules of the CREAZEE Club
So you want to be part of a group of people building a habit to write daily. Well, there are rules to follow. More or less.
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- Writing together is better
It seems like an eon ago I was struggling to launch my first online writing challenge. It was only 4 days ago.
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- The Challenge to Create is Hard
Daily writing means writing every day. You need to write, especially when you have no will to do it. Like today.
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- My 100 Ideas to Write About
An exercise in ideation. My list of ideas, topics, and themes to get inspiration from when I want to write a new article.
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- Containing Large Multitudes
I am Max. Massimo Curatella if you want the full name. Presenting myself has always been a problem.
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- I am ready, I am CREAZEE
When you recognize fear, you can manage it. Fear means you are alive, and you are living exciting moments.
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- Sunday is perfect for writing
And you should build a habit to write every day.
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- My 12 Favorite Problems
You should always be working on a dozen of your favorite problems. What are yours?
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- Writing, CreaZEEng, and Learning
This week has been hard. Heavy work. Heavy creativity. I am almost done with defining the official launch date for CREAZEE. And I’ve been writing every day.
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- Write 100 Ideas, Now
Change your attitude towards what you want and what you can create by exercising your creativity. Be CREAZEE!
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- What have you learned today?
If you want to become a better learner and give a higher value to your experiences, keep track of what you have learned daily.
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- Stay superficial, stay amateur!
I have serious problems in finding the motivation and the time to study properly. Especially about what is supposed to be for me solid acquired knowledge.
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- Buonanotte
Free-flowing writing, if you’re brave, is the only thing you can do when it’s almost time to sleep.
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- Learning Out Loud: What is a Customer Journey
In an HCD process, a Customer Journey is a tool to learn about our users’ potential and intentional experience.
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- Time Traveling
You need to respect more yourself. Respect the hard work you have done. Don’t ruin it.
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- Am I CREAZEE Enough?
Launching a CREAZEE project, build your habit of writing daily with a facilitator and a group of peers.
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- Start to create, now
What was the most critical event determining my 117 daily articles written and published in a row? Starting.
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- Living in Information by Jorge Arango, book review
There is a strong parallel between the characteristics and the influences of physical places on our lives and what worlds of information living in immaterial digital existences are having on them.
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- Daily Writing Habit Learning Challenge, a first draft
Challenge yourself to build a daily writing habit. Here is the alpha version draft outline. Let’s learn together.
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- Find a balance between theory and practice, management and execution
Get out of the office, put down your phone and see if you can do some practical work in your field, you’ll have immense benefits.
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- Open questions vs. Closed questions
Ask closed questions to have quick confirmation without provoking further discussion. Ask open questions to explore, learn and facilitate richer conversations.
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- Daily writing doesn’t make it automatically good
On top of the continuity, you need to create valuable content. When is the right time to assess what you have written?
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- Drip by drip, the ocean we can sip
Writing about writing and design. More focus on you. More focus on others. Come writing with me.
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- Think more about your future self
You can change your future by acting today. Rather than focusing on an abstract person in an intangible setting think about your future self.
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- Write, now
When you build a habit of writing every day, you have a part of your brain reserved for a fixed thought. You have to write.
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- Prototyping for maximum learning and minimum effort
Test your ideas with quick and cheap prototypes as early and as frequently as possible. You will get the maximum learning benefit out of the minimum effort.
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- Storytelling by abstraction
Change the context of those lessons learned that you cannot share. And share the knowledge without betraying your friends.
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- Design with your users in mind
Do not follow your intuition alone. You are not your users. Put yourself in their shoes. Design your success
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- Pleased to meet you
Wouldn’t it be fantastic to have somebody listening to you when you have something to say?
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- 100 Daily Blog Posts in a Row
It means I’ve made my daily writing habit stronger.
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- Feed your daily creative habit
Your daily habit is like a baby. You cannot forget to feed it. It would die. Go feed yourself.
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- I’m fine, but I am not sure about us
Design could elevate hospitals to Temples of Humanity instead of wells of desperation.
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- Writing is King, Long Life to Writing
A revised content strategy to focus more on writing and the daily habit of writing online.
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- What I’ve learned by publishing 100 articles in a row
A reflection on the best lessons learned by writing and publishing an article every day for 100 days.
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- Of Course!
Will you like this article?
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- Brain Trust Pioneers. The Report.
Bright minds convene to transform each other’s lives through facilitated feedback on concrete challenges.
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- Knowledge Entrepreneurs seeking Experiential Education
What will I do with all of this knowledge?
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- Knowledge Entrepreneurs: Brain Trust Day 1
Experts in diverse fields convene to provide structured feedback to each participant’s challenge in a reciprocal way.
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- Describe your knowledge capturing process to improve it
Stop hoarding useless mountains of data. Reflect on your bad habits by documenting them step-by-step. Drop useless actions. Repeat.
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- The Seeker
I’m looking for me. You’re looking for you. We’re looking in at other. And we don’t know what to do
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- Knowledge Entrepreneurs Salon 11: Start With Community
I’ve found the best place in the world. It’s called The Internet.
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- Experiential Education webinar with Jake Fee
Transforming experience into learning with John’Dewey’s Pattern of Inquiry and some areas of application.
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- Capture information, extract prompts and curate a collection of ideas in your PKM
Capture information, extract prompts and curate a collection of ideas in your PKM.
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- Learning Out Loud about Personal Knowledge Management
Learning experiments about PKM, Systems Thinking, data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
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- Capturing diagram images in your PKM System
Store images related to your interests and connect them to possible future use scenarios.
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- A systems thinker thinks in systems about systems
Systems Thinking emerges from considering the relationships and the interactions between all components of the observed system.
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- What am I capturing: data, information, or knowledge?
A note captured is usually something that will need further processing, and it’s seldom something we could use as it is.
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- Why capturing knowledge?
Capturing data, information, and knowledge depends on your vision and your character.
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- What is data, information, knowledge, and wisdom?
By giving context to raw data, you obtain information. Knowledge is information connected. Wisdom is knowledge applied to decision-making.
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- Learning Out Loud: Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom
I’m doing a crazy experiment. Instead of researching and reporting, I will write down what I know about data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.
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- Manage your knowledge or be managed
From PKM to finding continuity in my publishing flow.
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- A Personal Knowledge Management workflow
Capture and organize information. Develop and share ideas. Grow your PKM system to be more efficient and creative.
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- George Orwell wrote for selfishness, aesthetics, history, and politics
Exactly as I am.
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- Something small, every day
That’s the best I can do today.
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- Share your content wisely
I have been linking my daily posts everywhere. I’ve been doing it wrong. Here’s a step back.
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- What is Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)?
A basic PKM system could be created with digital files and folders, but it’s much more than that.
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- Questions. About the present. About the future.
You cannot always look for answers. What are your questions?
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- Life, Complexity, Creativity, Knowledge
But also innovation, design, and philosophy.. It’s the most classical Curatella style, ever. How could you go wrong?
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- Life, Complexity, Creativity, Knowledge
But also innovation, design, and philosophy.. It’s the most classical Curatella style, ever. How could you go wrong?
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