Via Creating Passionate Users comes this wonderful link on the role of magic in creativity. One of my earliest game design eureka moments was that showmanship and performance by proxy were two things one needed to master if you were to have any chance of creating anything interesting…because for everyday magic to work, you really need to believe. If you don’t, then no one else will.

Carolyn sent me the most awesome link of the day: See Jane Work, an online retailer that specializes in groovy colorful personal organizational gear. It seems to be targeted largely at women, but if you like your organizational gear to have a lighter funner vibe, this is the site for you. As I confessed to Carolyn, this is a site I would marry :-)

I was browsing Corrie Haffly’s blog; she’d written me about some interesting things she was doing with personal paper organization. There’s this VERY COOL tutorial, with ample screen shots, showing how to make a calendar template in Illustrator CS2, with dynamic data-driven text input. I didn’t even know you could do that in Illustrator. Awesome! Check it out!

Reporter Samantha Henig called me a few days before SXSW to ask me about the Gauntlet of Productivity, and inquired if I actually wore it. I admitted that I had only dared wear it once, and we got into a fun discussion about productivity and paper tools. My friend Senia just pointed out to me that Samantha’s article mentions it briefly in this Newsweek Online article. No pictures, though, which might be a good thing :-)