When it comes to innovation, leaving your comfort zone is crucial. Innovation requires taking risks, trying new things, and embracing the unknown. Getting stuck in… Read More »Innovating? Have To Leave Your Comfy Zone
What are people like? I have a feeling that we all, on some level, already know the answer to that question. Despite this, we continue… Read More »Do What People Want: Don’t Fight Human Nature
“I’m afraid the patient doesn’t have much longer to live,” the doctor said. There is a treatment, but it has some serious adverse effects. The… Read More »Embrace Change And Conquer The Future
If you want to be innovative, you have to learn to overcome your fears. Did you know that most people consider the fear of public… Read More »To Innovate, You Must Be Fearless
A while back, one of my leading posts was Agile Is Eating The World, where I riffed off on Andressen’s quote Software Is Eating The… Read More »Minimum Viability Eats The World
There are a lot of reasons why I enjoy facilitating our customers’ foresight initiatives. It is easier to help your inventors disconnect their current day-to-day… Read More »You Can’t Innovate Without Thinking About The Future
There are still some tasks that can only be accomplished by people. I remember going to Yahoo! back in 1995, just before everything exploded here… Read More »How To Use Humans And Machines To Perfect Curation
According to Wikipedia, the idea of just-in-time only appears in three contexts: just-in-time manufacturing, a production strategy in which things are built as they are… Read More »The Future Is Just-in-Time-Person-and-Place
During the time that I’ve managed projects, as we got through the process of implementing any kind of program, whether it’s a software implementation, and… Read More »Everything Is In Flux
You are an innovator, and you are pleased with the role that you play in the world. You take great pride in your ability to… Read More »Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now?
What is the true motivation behind the creation of the internet? Wasn’t it intended to link every human in the world to every other human… Read More »The Internet Is All Wrong
We certainly live in a fantastic time, don’t we? Even as recently as five years ago, we did not have nearly as many tools, frameworks,… Read More »There’s Never Been A Better Time For Innovative Startups
We are getting close to the point, and in some cases have already arrived, at which we are unable to function normally without the assistance… Read More »Can We Survive Without Our Devices?
Do you ever get tired of the internet in its current, hyperpersonalized state? Do you ever long for the good old days of the web… Read More »Let’s Make Discovery Great Again!
If there is one thing I’m unhappy about, it’s how big tech and big media exploit the tail for their own ends. But it’s a… Read More »Exploiting The Tail For Fun and Profit
At a recent client, I assisted in implementing AI-based decision-making software. The software was straightforward to use – having a very minimal interface; it was… Read More »To Build Trust, Answer The Why Question
I read today that several Twitch influencers are feeling burned out because “if they ain’t gaming, they ain’t making” (money, that is.) It’s gotten to… Read More »Mine, Or Sell Tools To The Miners?
Many people have lamented that over the last half-century, innovation has stalled. The look at the end of the 19th century and the start of… Read More »Why We Can’t Make Humans Happy
Everyone fears change. Humans would rather suffer under terrible conditions than step into the unknown. This is one of the reasons that it is so… Read More »Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste
Not all human cultures are literate, but every culture tells stories. Whether in caves or cities, storytelling remains the most natural and essential form of… Read More »Why Storytelling Is Important