Building A Better Lightning Rod Dept.

Not much time for blogging recently, but then, out into my lap, came this wonderful, previously unpublished essay by Isaac Asimov on the creative process. The whole thing is absolutely worth reading, but I will chomp out some of the most relevant parts:

Published for the First Time: a 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity | MIT Technology Review

The history of human thought would make it seem that there is difficulty in thinking of an idea even when all the facts are on the table. Making the...