by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Poetry, Writing
We are all familiar with this quote by Archimedes: “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” Well, perhaps it’s the engineer in me (I was an engineer long before I attended medical school), but I’ve...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Social Media, Writing Habits
Here’s how I used this morning’s journaling time (see the results above) to create a small idea for a podcast. Note the odd train of thought, as indicated by arrows: First I had it in my mind I was going to write a small haiku ⇒Should I use a single haiku for a blog...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Book Reviews, Creativity
On a lovely trans-Cascades drive this week, I had the opportunity to listen to the book The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek. (I tend to approach these types of books by audio). Sinek develops a powerful concept: finite games have fixed rules, fixed players, and a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Photography, Writing
In one of my go-to inspirational books The Writer’s Image, the photographer Jill Krementz describes some advice she received from one of her colleagues: But the person who really taught me the most about photography was Ira Rosenberg, another staff writer at the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Blogging, Creativity, Photography, Writing
I find the creative relationship between some of my blog posts and photography interesting. For example, in the blue heart photo, used in the post A Flaw in NLP-Enabled EHRs?, I am using the stone’s central scratch to highlight the concept of a flaw. In the...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Creativity, Photography, Writing
De gustibus non est disputandum: “About tastes, it should not be disputed/discussed.” People may or may not like my photo above. I happen to like it. I love its softness and the dew on the drops, the texture of the blueberries, and overall I think it is a pretty good...
