by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Digital Platforms, Photography
This week I have started a new photography class through a local college: Phone Photography Composition. It’s a two-hour-a-week Zoom class, with extensive use of a Flickr Group (in which we discuss and post our photos and have discussions with the instructor and the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Goals
Like the photo above, most creative decisions aren’t black and white. Most creative decisions are complex, nuanced, and grey. But the decision to commit to a project, to work hard, and to ship? That decision needs to be a yes or a no, black or white. A grey decision...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Habit, Writing Habits
For the past several years, one technique I have used to expand my creativity is to go out on what Julia Cameron refers to as an “Artist Date.” I’ve used various names for it (see my post from 2018: Going Out on an Innovation Date). Roughly, it’s going at once a week...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Writing, Writing Habits
I’m quite selective in giving businesses and organizations the ability to reach out to me digitally, whether it be by phone number or email. (This isn’t an easy task, and one’s guard must be up at all times. For example, it’s hard to go to any larger...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Uncategorized
Ugly, twisted tree, Branches knotted, cysts on trunk But the bugs love you!