Posts Tagged ‘limit’

The Productivity Threatdown

Fans of Steven Colbert are familiar with his “Threatdown” segment, an irreverent countdown of the five greatest threats facing the United States at any given moment. As I watched this segment one night – instead of, you know, working on the project I was desperately trying to get done – it occurred to me that the “threatdown” was one of the five greatest threats facing my productivity, at least right… Continue reading

July 10 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: constraint, distraction, goal, limit, perfectionism, procrastination | 17 comments»

Limits and Creativity

I want to tell you a story about two photographers.For a while now, I've been wanting to get more into photography, hoping eventually to buy a nice digital SLR camera. So I was quite thrilled when a photojournalist friend offered to give me some of her old film equipment to learn on. The camera, a Nikon FM2, is a fully manual model first introduced almost 30 years ago. It only… Continue reading

March 25 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: challenge, creative, creativity, limit | 26 comments»