Creativity

Record executive and record producer. Co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records.

Author of historical fiction, non-fiction, and screenplays. Notable works include the novel "The Legend of Bagger Vance" and the non-fiction book "The War of Art".

New York Times bestselling author of five books: Steal Like an Artist, Show Your Work!, Keep Going, Steal Like An Artist Journal, and Newspaper Blackout.

Writer (GQ, Wired, etc), former LA mag editor-at-large, co-author of Ed Catmull's NYT best-selling book CREATIVITY, INC. (2014) & Jeff Immelt’s HOT SEAT (2021)

American computer scientist. Co-founder of Pixar and former President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Honored for contributions to 3D computer graphics, including the 2019 ACM Turing Award.

A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure, spiritual devotion, and what she really wanted out of life. <br /><br />Around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned thirty, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. She had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want—a husband, a house, a successful career. But instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. She went through a divorce, a crushing depression, another failed love, and the eradication of everything she ever thought she was supposed to be. <br /><br />To recover from all this, Gilbert took a radical step. In order to give herself the time and space to find out who she really was and what she really wanted, she got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world—all alone. Eat, Pray, Love is the absorbing chronicle of that year. Her aim was to visit three places where she could examine one aspect of her own nature set against the backdrop of a culture that has traditionally done that one thing very well. In Rome, she studied the art of pleasure, learning to speak Italian and gaining the twenty-three happiest pounds of her life. India was for the art of devotion, and with the help of a native guru and a surprisingly wise cowboy from Texas, she embarked on four uninterrupted months of spiritual exploration. In Bali, she studied the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. She became the pupil of an elderly medicine man and also fell in love the best way—unexpectedly. <br /><br />An intensely articulate and moving memoir of self-discovery, Eat, Pray, Love is about what can happen when you claim responsibility for your own contentment and stop trying to live in imitation of society’s ideals. It is certain to touch anyone who has ever woken up to the unrelenting need for change.

American economist, columnist, and blogger. Professor at George Mason University, holding the Holbert L. Harris chair in the economics department. Co-host of the economics blog Marginal Revolution and co-founder of Marginal Revolution University.

British author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts. Director of the Arts in Schools Project and Professor of Arts Education at the University of Warwick. Knighted for services to the arts.

Organizational psychologist @Wharton. Books: THINK AGAIN, GIVE AND TAKE, ORIGINALS. Podcast: WorkLife @TEDTalks. Diver. Success is helping others succeed.

From 2001 to 2017 Ken Kocienda was a software engineer and designer at Apple. In Creative Selection he gives his personal account of what it was like to work at Apple during the last few years of the Steve Jobs era--from demo-ing products for Steve Jobs, to helping create software for products like the iPhone, the iPad, and WebKit, the most popular software in the world for browsing the web. Throughout, Kocienda shares the principles he and his colleagues used at Apple to do their best, most innovative work and to make great products, including the demo-driven iterative creative selection method used for turning ideas into finished work. The book is an inside look at how a group of software engineers and designers made world-changing products the Apple way.Creative Selection is about making great products and Ken's experiences trying to make them. During his fifteen years at Apple, the effort to make great products was all he thought about and cared about. Software was his piece in the product puzzle. He developed user interface concepts and prototypes which made the most of new hardware features, he wrote heaps of computer code to make it all go, and he worked with other programmers and designers to create bug-free software which shipped on schedule, as they all tried to make products which would surprise and delight the people who were eagerly waiting the unveiling of the next great thing. Apple was the perfect company for Ken, and his timing was great. He got in on the ground floor of some cool projects, including: the iPhone, the iPad, the Safari web browser, and more. The book is a collection of Ken's stories and thoughts about how they made these products--the light bulbs clicking on over people's heads, the long struggles to solve seemingly insoluble problems, the pleas for help, the brilliant people, the moments of confusion, the demo reviews, the methodical work, the never-ending demands to do better, and finally, the success of making products which people everywhere use every day to express themselves through words and pictures, communicate with their loved ones, and interact with the world. (From Google Books)

Artist, researcher, educator, instigator. He/him. Co-Director, @creativeinquiry. Chaotic Good.

Digital artist and environmental engineer. Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media at New York University. Known for eccentric and dysfunctional information systems exploring the intersection of digital networks and natural phenomena. Works discussed in prominent press outlets and exhibited in museums. Co-authored the textbook "Code as Creative Medium" for teaching computational art and design.