VERGE

To see around corners, follow the signs ...

WHAT GOT YOU HERE WON'T GET YOU THERE.

Books Read Chapter I BUY NOW Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader By Herminia Ibarra Today’s breakneck pace of change has an immense impact on leaders – and as a result, on the organizations they run. All too often, people remain stuck in outdated mindsets and modes of operating, even after others r...

To see around corners follow the signs ...

DON'T WAIT.

Around the Block 'Around the Block' is a passion project of mine that focuses on street artist David Zinn. I began work on it through my own sense of creative frustration,…

How do you see around corners?

Reading dead people’s mail and getting our heads into someone else’s world, looking like someone else, is how we figure out the texture of experience, and, why certain ideas take hold. Illuminating as prisms, or windows, we catch a rare glimpse of genius.

INKLINGS No.81
SEEING AROUND CORNERS

SEEING AROUND CORNERS Dear … You write about fear: Fear of the blank canvas […] which can only be countered when a person “steps in and does something,” […] thoughts go in loops, repeating patterns esta

INKLINGS No.80
THE WORLD IS WAITING

Like visits to Wonderland and imaginative escapes to Elsewhere, stories help us see through tiny holes to a world beyond, a world that’s waiting.

THE WORLD IS WAITING There once was a father who wrote the “clueless” handbook for making life magical. There once was a historian who figured that sometimes there’s only “ahead” and “behind” – no such

When you're figuring out your best move do you ...
Wait for new ideas to fall from the sky or get on and do the work?

There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness 'A joy of a book - enriching, illuminating, eclectic and far from a conventional science read' Richard Webb, New Scientist Books of the Year 'Carlo Rovelli's imaginative rigour, his lively humour and his beautiful writing are inspiring' Erica Wagner One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age, the...

What if there must be a must? How do you decide?
INKLINGS No.79 / ANYTHING YOU WANT

ANYTHING YOU WANT When you're figuring out your best move do you ...Wait for new ideas to fall from the sky or get on and do the work? When asked: "What are we here for?" do you ...Try to predict th

Creative freedom sounds so liberating. But is it?
What happens when you put restrictions in place?

INKLINGS No.78 / THE ONLY WAY TO TRAVEL

THE ONLY WAY TO TRAVEL Tell me ... Would you rather pick "happy" ... or "yes" in spite of "easy, it 'aint"?Would you rather have creative freedom ... or the power of constraints?Would you rather wait for

How do we fix a system that isn't working?
INKLINGS No.77 / AS IT ISN'T

Ten creative thinkers show us how to gain some perspective when it's bigger than us - everything; start synthesizing; and apply "big picture" thinking when the system isn't working.

AS IT ISN'T Assimilating endless streams of data; sifting what's true from what isn't; unscrewing opinions embedded in maths; and looking for ways to intervene that won't push things in the wr

How do you create from chaos?
Meet some incredibly smart people who've learned how to create, not out of the void, but chaos ... showing us we can do it too!

INKLINGS No.76 / EVERYTHING INSIDE

EVERYTHING INSIDE This moment, such as it is, right now, might feel like no other - hammering at the door. Insistently. Tense and frantic. Keeping us busy with busyness. In the flurry that has us un

When you want to leave port and reach another thousands of miles away ...
TRACY EDWARDS: Learn to navigate.

INKLINGS No.75 / THE FAR INVISIBLE

Stop being a bystander in your own life "Life doesn't go from A to B -- it's messy," says sailing legend Tracy Edwards. In this inspiring talk, she tells how she went from teenage misfit to skipper of the first all-female crew in the toughest race on the seas -- and how she now helps young people around the world achieve their dreams, too...

How do you work blindly when "there" is the unknown?
Meet creative adventurers looking through smoke and fire to draw the invisible.

INKLINGS No.75 / THE FAR INVISIBLE

THE FAR INVISIBLE Choose from this issue’s adventures into the unknown. Click on the take-me-there link and I’ll drop you off at the door. Make some introductions. So you can meet them – adventurers

Meet the micro-adventurers who reveal their tiny tips and the secrets to taking a short trip in these ten masterclasses in miniature.

INKLINGS No.74 / BECOMING

BECOMING Choose from this issue’s masterclasses in miniature. Click on the take-me-there link and I’ll drop you off at the door. Make some introductions. So you can meet them – micro-advent