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Jason Theodor (aka jted) is a Creative Consultant, Creative Director, Creative Writer, Creative Speaker, Creative Teacher.

The Creative Method and Systems is the culmination of 5 years thought on the subject of creativity, with the aim to take ideas to the next level and actualize them.

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September 7th, 8:09am 0 comments

On Cognitive Surplus: Cut Down TV Consumption, Save The World

In an interview about his new book (Here Comes Everybody), Clay Shirky is talking about group editing on Wikipedia when a television producer asks him, "Where do people find the time?" Shirky's response:

Nobody who works in TV gets to ask that question.

If we could just cut down a fraction of our TV watching, we could free up trillions of human hours to create new and interesting things, or tackle the world's problems. But first I have to find out which chef got kicked off of Hell's Kitchen...

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