We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are. – J.M. Barrie As a society, what keeps us from creating anything worthwhile? FEAR. Rock climbing requires a tremendous amount of focus by keeping your emotions in check in the ever present fear of falling to your death. If don’t [...]
Much like humans have mental models that determine their beliefs about how the world works, businesses have business models that do the same. And just how us humans get stuck in our own thoughts if we don’t feed ourselves new experiences, business models become irrelevant when they don’t evolve. Your business model will only change [...]
Xbox 360 Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5 Here’s a fascinating talk about our digital future by Carnegie Mellon University Professor Jesse Schnell who dives into a world of game development which will emerge from the popular "Facebook Games" era. Prof. Schnell sees a future where our behavior is determined by the [...]
What’s very dangerous is not to evolve. See that strange looking animal that looks like it was in the movie Avatar? It’s called a Mexican walking fish, or axolotl, and is one of the most bizarre creatures on the planet. Not just because of how it looks but because it has the distinct ability to [...]
Chaos, where brilliant dreams are born. Do you ever get this feeling that when you read the same stuff over and over again and then you try to read something completely unrelated you become bored very easily? Well that’s a very bad problem to have if you want to get into the business of [...]
In my entrepreneurial journey I’ve come across people who pretty much don’t care about ‘innovation’ but what they do care about is how they can extract (notice I said extract and not create) more value from their customers. It’s fair to say that those of us who preach the ‘there’s always a better way’ gospel [...]
Master the instrument, master the music, then forget all that shit and play. – Charlie Parker Some say innovation is predictable, I agree. But to a larger degree it is not because you can’t really tell where it’s going to come from and who will be holding all the cards. Right now you’re probably [...]
