If you are interested in Creativity, and exploring your own relationship to Creativity: I have found the books and articles listed below as good entry points into the conversation. Please feel free to contact me for further recommendations at ze@zefrank.com. Check back periodically for updates, this page will be expanded throughout 2005 - 2006.

On Decision Making:

Boyd, John R., "Destruction and Creation" http://www.belisarius.com/index.html , 1976.

Klein, Gary , “Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions” MIT Press, 1999.

Galdwell, Malcolm, “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, Little, Brown, and Company, 2005.

From the Viewpoint of the Artist

Lammot, Anne, “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, Anchor Books, 1994.

Tharpe, Twyla, “The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life: A Practical Guide”, Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Duchamp, Marcel, “The Creative Act”, http://www.humboldt.edu/~cs7005/article3.html


Psychological Perspectives

Sternberg, Robert (editor), “Handbook of Creativity”, Cambridge U. Press, 1999.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, “Creativity: Flow and Psychology of Discovery and Innovation”, Harper Collins, 1996.


Philosophical Perspectives

Marx, Karl, “Wage Labour And Capital”, Neur Rheinische Zietung, 1849.

Heidegger, Martin. “Discourse on Thinking”. Harpercollins, 1969

Gutting, Gary ,”Michel Foucault's Archaeology of Scientific Reason”, Cambridge UP, 1989.


On Play

Salen, Katie & Zimmerman, Eric, “Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals”, MIT Press, 2004.

Winnicot, D.W., "On Playing and Reality", Routledge, 1982.


Innovation, Business and the Future

Rushkoff, Douglas, “Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out”, Harpers, 2005.

Gershenfeld, Neil, "Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop - From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication", Basic Books, 2005.

Adams, James L., “Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide To Better Ideas”, Perseus, 2001 (4th ed.).

Norvig, Peter, “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years”, http://www.norvig.com/21-days.html

De Bono, Edward, "Lateral Thinking", Perrenial, 1973.