Two Guys, Two Mics, and Both Lenses in Real Time

Mark 

Sometimes the clearest illustration of what I write about doesn't come from a lab or a philosophy text. It comes from two guys on a podcast, one of

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Two Guys, Two Mics, and Both Lenses in Real Time

Triangulating the Starfleet Academy Fan Backlash

Mark 

If you haven't read the previous article “Beaming Upstream: How Starfleet Academy Teaches Us to Clean the Lens” you might find it useful to start there and then

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Triangulating the Starfleet Academy Fan Backlash

Beaming Upstream: How Starfleet Academy Teaches Us to Clean the Lens

Mark 

If you have been watching Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, specifically the second episode, “The Beta Test,” you might have noticed something shift. It wasn’t just a plot twist;

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Beaming Upstream: How Starfleet Academy Teaches Us to Clean the Lens

Being Jonas Wilder: I Wrote 100 Songs. I Didn’t Know 11 of Them Were Telling the Same Story

Mark 

Forty years. Hundreds of shows, a dozen bands, a van with more miles on it than sense. I wrote songs the way most people breathe, because I didn’t

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Being Jonas Wilder: I Wrote 100 Songs. I Didn’t Know 11 of Them Were Telling the Same Story

No New Method Required: An Experiment Worth Trying, Just Once

Mark 

We've covered a fair amount of ground in this space already. Today isn't about adding to it. It's about something lighter: an experiment. Here's what we know, without

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No New Method Required: An Experiment Worth Trying, Just Once

Forward or Back? Why One Path to Connection Uses the Very Thing It’s Trying to Get Past

Mark 

I spent an evening not long ago with someone who has given a large part of his life to a single question: why do human beings feel so

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Forward or Back? Why One Path to Connection Uses the Very Thing It’s Trying to Get Past

What You Know Is What You’re Worth: A Rule That Contradicts Itself

Mark 

You've heard the line. Someone doesn't know something everyone else in the room seems to know, and someone else says it, half joking. "Where have you been, living

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What You Know Is What You’re Worth: A Rule That Contradicts Itself

The Blank Stare I Keep Getting When I Say “Human Connection”

Mark 

I say the words "human connection" a lot. It's close to the center of everything I do. And more often than I expected, I watch the same thing

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The Blank Stare I Keep Getting When I Say “Human Connection”

“We’ve Always Had the Flint Blade and Spear”: Why That’s Not the Rebuttal It Sounds Like

Mark 

A while back I was talking with a gallery owner, a painter himself, someone whose whole life is built around seeing things freshly. I shared an idea from

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“We’ve Always Had the Flint Blade and Spear”: Why That’s Not the Rebuttal It Sounds Like

Sustaining Creativity Podcast-Natural Creativity with Mark Firehammer

Mark 

I had the pleasure of a converssation on my favorite subject Natural Creativity, with the host of the Sustaining Creativity Podcast Mari Reisberg. https://sustainingcreativity.buzzsprout.com Share this: Share on

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Sustaining Creativity Podcast-Natural Creativity with Mark Firehammer