Three things came together to make me think of this post: I regularly get feedback from my research interviews that people really enjoy them. That’s interesting, because I’m a lousy interviewer. After the last round, we got some feedback from our contact at the firm who said that he had received thank-you emails for setting […]
I often talk about Ada Lovelace in my public talks and in class. In the mid-1800s, she was the world’s first computer programmer – writing code to run on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. Like Babbage, she was well ahead of her time, and an important figure in the history of computing. Which is why Ada […]
Here are two quick connections that I made today relating to innovation. First – watch this: It’s called “All Creative Work is Derivative” by Nina Paley, and here’s her description of how she made it. Brian Arthur argues in his book The Nature of Technology that all new economic ideas build on the combination of […]
Last week I talked about how I use Malcolm Gladwell’s TED talk in my innovation courses. Another one that I use to illustrate how the innovation process is changing is the talk by Charles Leadbeater: The innovation lessons are a little easier to pull out of this one, since it is directly about innovation. Leadbeater […]
Nancy and I were talking about a kind of strange newspaper article that her sister sent her discussing the upcoming release of the DSM-V (the official diagnostic manual for mental illnesses). The author of the article was a psychiatrist advocating going back to the 19th century definition of depression – melancholia. I joked that we […]
We’ve talked quite a bit about the situation in which the news industry currently finds itself. It is interesting because it is an industry in the middle of massive disruption, which makes it a great case study. Consequently, lots of other people are talking about it as well. This week I tweeted abougt two stories […]
I was doing some work with a company this week, and ran across one of my pet peeves. The organisation itself was very exciting. We interviewed over 20 people about various projects that were going. To a person they were smart and engaging, with great ideas, vision and energy. It was invigorating. The number of […]