Saturday, August 20, 2022

Duncan Wardle & Muphry’s Law (sic) - Opposite of bravery is not cowardice it is conformity

 “Opposite of bravery is not cowardice it is conformity”


Duncan Wardle: Design Thinking & Innovation: Sydney MMXXII


Duncan Wardle believes everyone is creative but that it's getting harder to convince people of that. On the TEDxAUK stage, he talks about the importance of creativity and why it will be the one core human element to compete in a world that is becoming automated faster than we can think.

The Theory of Creativity - Wardle


Disney - Duncan Wardle With Jacqui Curtis and Brad Chapman


Next time you hear a bad idea in the office, try saying “Yes.” 

That is, fight that impulse to say, “No, and here’s why your idea isn’t going to work.” That negative response shuts down creativity, says Duncan J. Wardle, former head of innovation and creativity at Disney.

4 Techniques To Unlock Creativity, Including Saying ‘Yes’


Muphry's Law dictates that (a) if you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written; (b) if an author thanks you in a book for your editing or proofreading, there will be mistakes in the book; (c) the stronger the sentiment expressed …


Muphry's law is an adage that states: "If you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written."[1] The name is a deliberate misspelling of "Murphy's law".

Names for variations on the principle have also been coined, usually in the context of online communication, including:

  • Umhoefer's or Umhöfer's rule: "Articles on writing are themselves badly written." Named after editor Joseph A. Umhoefer.[2]: 

Muphry's Law - John Bangsund



The Purpose Of Learning, The Links To Creativity

We accumulate what the philosopher Ruth Garrett Millikan calls “dead facts” — knowledge about the world that is useless for daily living, like the distance to the moon, or what happened in the latest episode of “Succession.” - The New York Times

“A piece you’ve never seen before often has 10 times more impact.”

~ HOW PARIS’S HOTTEST YOUNG DESIGNER ADDED DRAMA TO A CLASSIC PIED-À-TERRE


This Art Director Thought She Loved Neutrals — Until She Started Decorating Her Sunny San Juan Apartment




According to the studio, the limitations imposed by this method of construction informed both the shape and size of the structure.

"The crane required corner lifting eyes at the same height – and this drove the profile to make the roof a butterfly shape rising to the same height on all corners," studio co-founder Andrew Clancy explained.

Clancy Moore Architects adds angular writer's hut to Dublin home



London studio Knox Bhavan has created a prefabricated, flood-resilient house on the bank of the River Thames in Buckinghamshire, which is designed to be "future-proof" for at least the next 100 years.

Knox Bhavan creates flood-resilient March House on banks of River Thames



Invisible Studio adds rammed-earth yoga studio to the gardens of Somerset hotel

British practice Invisible Studio has created a yoga studio with rammed-earth walls and a roof clad in copper shingles at The Newt in Somerset hotel in England.


A 1980S COUNTRY HOUSE RECEIVES A SOARING MAKEOVER