David Soubly

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4 posts tagged with "creativity"

Xanadu

Reflections on Creativity
Posted:October 15, 2018 | Tags: Innovation, Marketplace, Artistry, Creativity

In a recent blog, I ranted about what should have been a quick start to my day. How I’d begun my daily session with high hopes to create something meaningful. I’d been inspired, and I’d wanted to get my thoughts down as quickly as I could.

Instead, my laptop rebelled. After several false starts, reboots and corrective actions, some 35 minutes later I found myself sitting before a blank screen, my inspiration gone. So I wrote — complained, really — about this frustrating experience, titling...

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Why I Improvise At the Piano

Observations On the Inner Spark That Creates Sound from Silence
Posted:May 28, 2019 | Tags: Innovation, Marketplace, Artistry, Creativity

Sometimes, late at night, I improvise music on the piano.

Most often, the best improvisation takes place late at night. Just as the best pure writing for me seems to take place first thing in the morning when, hair going every which way and clad in embarrassing stuff, I squint at the screen while letting my fingers just go. Putting down on the page those fragments, associations that may, at some point, body forth a coherent bit of writing.

But improvising. Ah. That’s the stuff of...

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The Unchained Elephant

Reflections on Creativity and Culture Collision
Posted:August 10, 2021 | Tags: change, courage, leadership, culture, conflict, persistence, creativity

We’ve all been to the zoo. Some zoos do better than others at recreating natural habitats, so the animals they confine can enjoy the illusion of freedom.

Visiting one such zoo, I studied a female elephant in her enclosure. The elephant’s behavior puzzled me. She would step forward onto a horizontal log, and it looked like she was about to cross over it. Then her rear leg would lift and bend slightly. As if this slight movement had tugged a rope, she would stop, then step backward off the...

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Dark Matter

Ventures Into the Unknown Surrounding Us
Posted:February 17, 2023 | Tags: Learning, Knowledge, Language, Creativity, Discovery

Let's start this rumination with a phrase made familiar by a recent world leader: “Everybody knows” what dark matter is.

You might not. Dark matter is the vast amount of as-yet unobserved matter in the universe. It’s dark because it doesn’t interact with anything (at least, that we know of). No, you haven’t spotted it lurking in the corner of your apartment. Or have you?

You might not have a physics background. I don’t, either. I’m also not that great at mathematics, beyond the practical...

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