Omar IsmailChance, Creativity, and Idiosyncratic TraitsAny honest successful entrepreneur will tell you that luck and timing were critical to her success. Because luck and timing are not…Dec 21, 2015Dec 21, 2015
Omar IsmailAre Innovations InevitableIt starts off with a light bulb moment. A thought enters a mind, a eureka moment. The soon-to-be innovator becomes passionate about the…May 6, 2015May 6, 2015
Omar IsmailLight And How Thomas Edison Did Not “Invent” The Light BulbJust about a century ago, this image from space would show complete darkness. Artificial light has been one of those innovations that…Mar 8, 2015Mar 8, 2015
Omar IsmailThe History And Innovation of SoundSound has been altered in ways we often don’t realize. We pick up a phone and somehow the other person on the line can clearly hear our…Feb 23, 2015Feb 23, 2015
Omar IsmailCold Frederick Tudor, The Ice Trade, and How It Brought About Frozen Food, Refrigerators, and ACWeather — as some of us in New England have been experiencing — has been a problem throughout human history. It is only recently that we…Feb 17, 2015Feb 17, 2015
Omar IsmailGlass The Innovation That Built The Modern WorldThis is a part 1 of 6 of the innovations discussed in Steven Johnson’s “How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World”…Feb 10, 2015Feb 10, 2015
Omar IsmailPeter Thiel On The Seven Questions A Startup Must AnswerPeter Thiel, in his book Zero to One, laid out seven questions that a startup must answer in order to be successful. The book itself is one…Jan 12, 20151Jan 12, 20151