• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on creativity and routine

• Nick Cave on creating on the edge of disaster

• Nick Cave on loss and improvisation

• What does it feel like to be inspired?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson’s self-reliance amidst the epistemic chaos of platform capitalism

• Cybernetics and the dual-edged sword of disciplinarity

• Programming as practice

• Losing yourself in Westeros

• The challenge of being ready to think

• Xerox PARC and the challenge of building a community of inquiry

• The imposter syndrome of the young Neil Gaiman

• the backstory to creative work

• The challenges to creativity in higher education

• Creativity as Apophatic

• Why does the iPhone matter to us?

• “You work your day doing something you’re not proud of, and you decompress at night with television and whisky”

• Jerome Bruner’s six essential conditions of creativity

• Improvisation in academic life

• Some auto-ethnographic thoughts on the phenomenology of writing

• Non-linear creativity