http://johncaswell.com/blog Creativity, Thinking Differently, Inspiration and Insights from around the place... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:56:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A wall is a vastly underestimated device. It has scale. It can be viewed from many angles. It is impressive. We tend to walk blindly past them. Not me. I love them. I use them in my work. I get to notice a great ... http://johncaswell.com/blog/?p=703 Walls are just stuck there. Immobile, one dimensional, passive. Rubbish. They are alive and all around us. They are outside and inside. They form the inside - they define the outside.  They can be at once forbidding and tantalising. They ... http://johncaswell.com/blog/?p=702 <div>More visualization I'm always upgrading my Bio. I was prompted to do this again and so here is the latest re-write of history. I hope you find it interesting and of course slightly challenging. I'm always rewriting it to try to make it hang together better but hey if ... http://johncaswell.com/blog/?p=701 <div><div style="width:420px;text-align:left;">Open publication - Free publishing - More strategy</div></div>   A rapid run through what we do at Group Partners.  There is a companion one about what i actually do and that will appear above this one. I've chosen the stories I always tell and often get asked to ... http://johncaswell.com/blog/?p=700   Charles Leadbetter has done it again in my opinion and I cannot imagine anyone having any truck with the sentiments expressed in this short animation. Beautifully crafted and articulated. The thesis here is one we practice fully so no surprise to regular readers to ... http://johncaswell.com/blog/?p=699 Ray Kurzweil famously stated in his law of accelerating returns in The Singularity Is Near - “In the next 100 years, and at the current rate, we will witness 20,000 years of progress. Or about one thousand times greater than that of ... http://johncaswell.com/blog/?p=698 That's It! Posted via email from Just Thinking! http://johncaswell.com/blog/?p=697 Is the world ready for real creativity? Sadly a misunderstood and very overused term - one that evokes a war of words waged by the winged devils of definition. But remember I don’t actually care what people think. To me – what I ... http://johncaswell.com/blog/?p=696 Sometimes there's a kind of grace, a weird peace inside me, that anyone might easily mistake for apathy. At that singular moment I feel both totally on it and wholly incapable of doing anything. I feel both buzzed and yet also sense that I ... http://johncaswell.com/blog/?p=695 I'm struck by Ray Kurzweil's thesis on the exponential rate of progress. I really like and agree with the conclusions he draws on how we will become indistinguishable from our technologies. Many will find it a horrendous idea. Not me. He says broadly that ... http://johncaswell.com/blog/?p=694