The Creative Class Tools lens helps you find tools and information that can assist you become more creative. It is designed for people who produce, primarily, new creations at work, and people who solve problems that have no one obvious or easy solution.
If you design things that have to be functional, things that rely on condensing prior learnings, this lens is for you.
What is the Creative Class?
... and how can I use this information to my advantage
The Creative Class will rule the new Knowledge Economy. Are you a part of it? Tooling your creation process will help you rapidly progress.
Over the last few years I've noticed that I keep on sharing with friends and colleagues how to get the most out of their (mostly computer) tools.
This lens is a compilation, and a discussion, of tools to help your creativity.
The term: "Creative Class" was coined by Richard Florida, a Carnegie-Mellon social scientist.
Over the last few years I've noticed that I keep on sharing with friends and colleagues how to get the most out of their (mostly computer) tools.
This lens is a compilation, and a discussion, of tools to help your creativity.
The term: "Creative Class" was coined by Richard Florida, a Carnegie-Mellon social scientist.
Essential Creative Class reading
- Wikipedia definition of "Creative Class"
- A simple introduction to the term
- Be creative -- or die
- In this interview, Richard Florida outlines in more detail how, a new class of workers is emerging that is distinct from Knowledge Workers. While Knowledge workers distinguish themselves by the intellectual nature of their skill, they do not necessarily perform creative tasks. This has deep implications. Creative people have the distinct task of innovating in mind.
Reviews of tools to help you become creative
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I catalog links to resources on the web that outline tools that can help creativity by organizing, archiving or re-mixing thoughts. You can see explanations of these tools on my blog at http://aparicio.org/blog
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