Since most of us are now working from home I thought it may be useful to let you in on some of the scientific and anecdotal evidence about how spaces affect us and our creativity.
Economists, bless them, have spent centuries trying to explain why some nations prosper and others flounder, filling blackboards with supply curves, liquidity traps, and enough Greek letters to staff an Athens phone book. And yet the answer may have been hiding in plain sight all along
Brilliant Conditions V3
Why Culture Is the Greenhouse (or the Weedkiller) of Human Creativity
On imagination, risk, and the surprisingly negotiable economics of permission
A mildly irreverent, thoroughly researched tour through intelligence, creativity, and the curious gap between knowing everything and imagining anything.
what exactly is the relationship between intelligence and creativity? Are they the same thing in different clothes?
You know that moment when a solution arrives in the shower, fully formed, like Athena springing from Zeus's head? Or when you've been staring at a problem for hours and suddenly—click—everything makes sense? That's not magic. That's your brain doing something simultaneously elegant and absurd: questioning everything it thinks it knows.
Systems and reductionist thinking.
According to Karl Popper, all problems are either Clocks or Clouds. A clock is something you can take to pieces analyze the parts and work out how it works. A cloud is a dynamic system, you can’t it apart. The way to understand a cloud is to study it in a holistic way.