Creative Insights

Most creative teams don’t fail for lack of talent—they fail for lack of conditions. Real ideas emerge when emotional management, deep structural thinking, and soft selection mechanisms work together. These three tools transform brainstorms from polite conversations into breakthrough sessions, helping teams cut deeper, protect their energy, and generate ideas that truly shift the work.

For centuries, curiosity was feared, condemned, and treated as a threat to order. From Eve to Galileo, from Aristotle to the Renaissance, this brief history traces how curiosity moved from sin to virtue. Today it’s praised only in narrow forms, but for creative minds, wide curiosity remains essential: the endless fuel that expands ideas and keeps imagination alive.

War flattens more than cities.
It crushes the everyday creativity people need to adapt, imagine, and rebuild their lives—especially children. In this Sunday Blooming Reading, Blithe Ernst reflects on how war silences imagination, reduces life to survival, and replaces curiosity with vigilance.
Not all creativity thrives in crisis.
Some of it vanishes quietly, and forever.
What happens to a world that forgets how to play?

They didn’t follow rules.
They rewrote what a magazine could be.
Underground mags from the 60s and 70s used chaos as fuel for creativity.
They experimented with layout, language, and purpose.
They were loud, political, strange — and unforgettable.

Sayonara Seventy Nine selects 7 standout titles that shaped counterculture through design and disruption.
These weren’t just publications.
They were creative acts of resistance.

Improvisation is brilliant—when it’s the last resort. In this Sunday Blooming Reading, Blithe Ernst unpacks the myth of improvisation as a creative method. While being able to improvise is a gift, relying on it as your only tool is reckless. True creativity is not about waiting for inspiration to strike, but about training, weaving, building. Improvisation can save the day—but it should never be the plan.