[Weekly Retro] Ingredients of creativity
#227 - Apr.2025
Weekly Retro is a short e-mail with a wrap-up of ideas from the week, interesting links I found, and food for thought before you head off for the weekend.
Hi there!
💡 Here is a quick idea before you head off to the weekend:
Three ingredients for creativity:
- Imagination: combine your experiences into new ideas
- Curiosity: ask more "what-if" questions
- Courage: test ideas despite the fear of failure
We often limit creativity to "artistic" roles, but creativity belongs to everyone solving problems.
We need creative lawyers, doctors, managers, accountants, [add your role here].
What small experiment could you try this week to solve a problem differently?
🧠 Ideas from this week
- The best ideas
- Unstructured innovation
- When products think: navigating the AI product shift
- Accountability and collaboration
📊 Visuals from this week
About the paradigm changes between traditional product management and managing AI-driven products:
Source: Reforge
👨🏻💻 Interesting links
I found interesting things about:
- An injectable pacemaker that brings hope to children with congenital heart defects
- Creativity drive in the face of technological change
The world’s smallest pacemaker is injectable and powered by light
A team of engineers at Northwestern University have created the world’s smallest pacemaker. It’s activated by light and can be inserted via syringe.
Lawrence Bonk
Multi-disciplinary artist Jack Rusher on the need to sustain your creative drive in the face of technological change – The Creative Independent
Multi-disciplinary artist Jack Rusher discusses habit as excellence, what scientists and artists have in common, and the influence of AI on creativity.
Rebecca Hiscott
🖋️ Quote of the week
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” – Satchel Paige
