99 Percent Sweat

“Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration” – Thomas Edison Don’t let that quote, the inspiration of the conference 99%, lead you to believe that this is anything less than creative. Just take a look at the list of speakers, past and present. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the President of RISD John Maeda , Scott Thomas who was design director for Obama for America. It’s one thing to be a creative thinker. It’s another thing to be creative AND productive. Kudos to our art department for always impressing me there. But I see a lot of creative energy elsewhere frittered away and it makes me sad. Yes, I will acknowledge there are a lot of bad ideas flying around, but the good ones… the good ones shouldn’t die because we don’t know what to do with them. So check out the site for the 99% conference, and if you go, would you… um… let me know how it was? 99% April 15-16 The Times Center New York City [link]

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