James Whittaker on Creativity & Storytelling

Unknown Origins

Creative leaders are iconoclasts. They walk to the beat of their own drum and influence their innate vision, gifts, and talents. They craft poetry in a world that is content with prose, and art where there is only architecture. They help us view the world in a new dimension.
James Whittaker provides perspective about his quest to save the world from boredom through creativity and storytelling.
From academia, startups and tech companies, such as trustworthy computing, Visual Studio and development leader with a big platform on Cortana, before becoming the company's first distinguished technical evangelist at Microsoft. Engineering Director of. Chrome Maps and Google Plus at Google. He is now the CTO of Biscuit Labs - the most important ambient computing company you've never heard of! He is also the author of eight books. Two of them have been jolt award finalists and to our best sellers.
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Chapters

1. James Whittaker on Creativity & Storytelling (00:00:00)

2. What inspired and attracted you to being a Creative? (00:01:41)

3. How do you a have such a resonant voice, tone & style on how you tell stories? (00:07:27)

4. How do you make the invisible visible in your Creative Process? (00:10:28)

5. What are the key skills needed? (00:17:15)

6. If you were 18 again and know what you do now, what would you do differently, if a tall anything? (00:19:45)

7. What is your vision for the future? (00:22:06)

8. What is the importance of Storytelling in Creativity? (00:26:22)