Originally posted on Ant.Cat I love when groups get together and collaborate, but please try to avoid making the same mistakes our team did… It only leads to the group becoming drained, wiped-out, and winded. TL;DR: Design sprints are amazing, but they aren’t magic. After 5 years, 50 design sprints…

So damn stoked for 2018! For our family 2017 was all about new beginnings… Despite all the sad news that 2017 brought into the world, the Catanese household had a super cool year. We moved from Florida to Colorado My wife graduated top 1% of her class and has the…

What happens when a team of three receive a few million dollars with the unlimited mission to, “Go forth and innovate!” for an enterprise organization? This is the story of Ignite, an innovation lab for one of the world’s largest companies, Adecco Group (1). All parts included — what went…

“This world is a great wiggly affair. Clouds are wiggly, waters are wiggly, plants are wiggly, mountains are wiggly, people are wiggly. But people are always trying to straighten things out. Look, you see we live in a rectangular box, all the time; look at the bookshelves, see, everything’s straightened…

A story about choices, death, and new life. — Everyday my job is to innovate, teach people to innovate and to continuously look at problems in new ways. I’m coming close to 7,000 hours of solely thinking out of the box for hundreds of problems, yet I'm still nowhere near as creative as these people… I was at work…

A true story of dirty laundry and bad habits. — http://www.clker.com/profile-132254.html Trying to be a gentleman can be a stressful situation. Every moment with a guest receives a bit more attention than it really deserves and can be distracting for conversation. Doors for instance: Does the door I’m trying to open push out or pull in? How far away are…