[Weekly Retro] Are we losing our critical creativity?
#198 - Nov.2024
Happy Friday!
💡 Here is a quick idea before you head off to the weekend:
Our future needs people who excel in critical creativity.
The ability to think critically while finding connecting insights across various domains is becoming more rare.
Technology is making us more efficient. But is also turning us more lazy.
If we offload all our decision-making to tech, without questioning, we end up not experimenting reality in a way we can develop knowledge and expertise.
Creativity will become the most important force for differentiation.
[ps: I'm writing a long article on my observations and concerns about how we are leaving behind our critical thinking, and how we can avoid having tech fully driving our ideas. Subscribe here, and I will send it to your e-mail.]
📝 Word of the year
Through public voting Oxford published the word of the year for 2024: Brain Rot
‘Brain rot’ is defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterioration”.
👨🏻💻 Interesting links
Klokan Technologies GmbH (https://www.klokantech.com/)
🖋️ Quote of the week
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
