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Short PBS video on creativity. The creative process is relevant not only to artists but to anyone who must solve complex problems. Julie Burstein explains her view on the creative process and negative capability at the beginning of the video: [Creativity implies] the ability to stay in a space where you don’t exactly know what’s going to happen next. Willing to chase down ideas, and also willing to understand that not all of them will lead somewhere. Read more...

Shortly after Apple’s iPhone 6/6+ launch on September 9, IDG announced that the print edition of Macworld is shutting down. Jason Snell, Macworld’s lead editor for more than ten years and who has worked in Macworld for more than seventeen, writes in Goodby, Macworld: Over the last decade we all made an enormous effort to transform Macworld editorial from a magazine mentality to a web site mentality. And honestly, it worked: By the end, the magazine was essentially a curated collection of the best stories from the website, cut down and copy edited and with nice photographs. Read more...

The news have been reporting on the dispute between Amazon and Hachette. Neither company has disclosed the details of the dispute, but the argument is understood to be about e-book pricing. Amazon argues that e-books should sell at a lower price because of the lower costs of the e-book value chain. Also, according to Amazon, e-books are highly price elastic. (If an e-book priced at $14.99 sells 100 copies, lowering its price to $9. Read more...

Quote from Warren Buffet’s 2011 interview taken from Farnam Street’s article What makes Warren Buffett a great investor? Is it the intelligence or the discipline?. The good news I can tell you is that to be a great investor you don’t have to have a terrific IQ. If you’ve got 160 IQ, sell 30 points to somebody else because you won’t need it in investing. What you do need is the right temperament. Read more...

Dim Sum Thinking on writing: We have so much bad writing in us. We need to keep writing until we get that writing out of us. You have to make time to write every day. Really. The same applies to other disciplines. Read more...