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your work.
And yourself.

Way Walker's personal creativity notes about art, fear, taste, purpose, attention, and the hidden forces that shape what we make.

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Creativity

Where creative geniuses hangout.

History has shown that creative geniuses usually hangout in the same cities at the same time.

June 26, 2025
Creativity

Kendrick Lamar's Keys of Creativity

Over the years, I’ve dug through interviews, documentaries, books, lyrics, behind-the-scenes footage…not just to admire Kendrick's work, but to decode it.

June 12, 2025
Creativity

Have you heard of this word before?

The word you probably never heard of yet it's found all around you.

August 8, 2023
Creativity

Steal the way Creative Geniuses think.

You can hack your way to being “smart’ by stealing the way smart people think.

December 25, 2022
Creativity

Secret to winning a Nobel Prize.

Here’s a secret the world’s best scientists used to win a Nobel prize…and it has nothing to do with science.

December 18, 2022
Creativity

The Genius Behind Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa is legendary because Leonardo da Vinci combined his mastery of art and scientific genius to pioneer groundbreaking techniques to paint the earliest painting that comes as close to a photograph as possible—182 years before the camera was invented.

February 25, 2021
Creativity

Has Music Lost its Luster?

What started out as a debate about the generational difference in musical taste ended with me pondering how and why music has changed over time.

October 21, 2020