innovation
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Creativity is for the uncertain
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Creativity is an all-in, imaginative process that prides itself on chasing the unknown. So we proceed in a random fashion, anticipating discovery through trial and error. Most people want to repeat what they ordered in the past. And they get upset when something new disrupts their banal yet predictable everyday menu. Certainty is too darn…
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Dancing into happy accidents
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Life involves trial and error. Effort necessitates randomness. To generate ideas, we must try something new. Otherwise, all the ideas remain locked up in would-be artifacts. The triumph of humankind is freedom: to create, cooperate, and act. We can see and measure success by dancing into accidents rather than stipulating certain conditions into the design.…
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Stepping into the future
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Out of step with the times, in step with the undistributed future. The present is all some people know; an interpretive process stuck into the closeupness of the mind. There are too many lemmings and not enough thinkers. He or she who insists on themselves always begins with something trivial before the objective gets serious. Everything is…
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The revolt of you
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In constant revolt, we take on new challenges that others can’t see or are too preoccupied to try. The mother of invention is necessity, with the brave and curious making that tiny start. Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Susan Sontag The endeavor to do…
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Back of the envelope…for starters ✍️✉️
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2 min read
It doesn’t matter where or how an idea emerges. What matters is that the concept exists somewhere on paper, a napkin, an envelope, a Tweet, or a blog post. We can’t begin to assess and dissect our thoughts unless we can see its basic framework and bones visually. I’m not writing it down to remember…
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The case for playing the long game
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Good things take time. If we all settled for immediate results, there would be no Apple, Amazon, or Tesla. The world’s best leaders are visionaries. They work years ahead, having planted the seeds for what’s happening now to springboard them into the future. When asked in 2018 what he thinks when analysts congratulate him on…
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Revolutionizing tomorrow
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Enough schooling will kick the creativity out of you. What it doesn’t teach you is how to push ideas to completion. That comes within. The interested artist stops for nobody even if that means painting from memory, not life. Hyper-vigilant to blind spots, the curious maker is also looking to out-innovate themselves. Doing what your…
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Raising the level of consciousness
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You can’t program a robot to be bored. It runs on doing. You can’t depend on a robot to pursue a half-baked idea when it doesn’t know what stretches tastes. At the same time, a robot can multiply randomness. Using AI, It can think of thousands of possibilities at once. It is the ultimate prompt…
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This is neat. There’s a special kind of concrete called Topmix Permeable that acts like a giant sponge to soak up as much as 880 gallons of water per minute. The material permits water to drain through the voids to prevent the puddles you’d see created on ordinary concrete. It seems like a practicable solution…