Russell Davies is an advertising planner and writer who posts on creativity, being interesting and lessons from agency work.
Commenters share his posts on making interesting work, such as the 2006 piece on being interesting and the argument that quantity beats quality.
Don't miss the backstory:
"And it soon becomes apparent that this issue goes a lot broader. Their course is designed to churn out mini-art directors, mini-account people, mini-planners for a world that increasingly just wants creative generalists."
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/building_creati.html
I was an art student at UO at the time, briefly participating in the journalism department's advertising club that brought Russell Davies to visit. So far, generalism is working out.
There's something in what you say, but I've spent enough time in youth hostels to know that the connections you make with people while traveling, even if they appear very meaningful at the time, often turn out to be superficial. Travel is one way to end up a well-rounded human being, but there are many others. For example: http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/how_to_be_inter.html
When it comes to producing amazing work, quantity beats quality.
That is, it's better to produce 100 things and throw away 99 than it is to sit around a perfect 1. In the end the quality will be higher.
http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2007/02/quantity_equals.html
There's another interesting article in the same spirit: http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/how_to_be_inter.html
HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3279190