Taming a Wild Idea, Step One One of the most challenging aspects to taming a wild idea is moving it from the ever-so-tasty place where you can love it from a distance to diving in to make it real. There's something truly delicious about allowing grand ideas to stay wild. They're always perfect when they [...]
Break the Stick: Rules and Wild Ideas In the course of creating Spillian, I’ve found myself regularly chanting particular ideas like a mantra - an idea about whatever it was we were trying to make happen at that time and how to handle its complexities. These burbled up from somewhere, maybe from my toes, maybe from [...]
"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." – Lewis Carroll Almost fifteen years ago, I finished a [...]
What's your wild idea? For a bunch of years now, I've been working with organizations and leaders across a variety of fields think about how they can dream their work and play in the world forward. In 2013, my husband and I launched Spillian: A Place to Revel in the Catskills. The process of getting [...]
