Innovation

Scrape Your Knees: Why Falling is Essential to AI Mastery

Beware Prompt-Hoarding

I’ve noticed a troubling trend emerging amongst nearly-power-users of GenAI: the tendency to bookmark, save, and share…

Commission A Personal AI Project

“When people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work.”
- David Ogilvy

Start Using AI for Yourself

Tomorrow, I’m launching a 3-week-long AI opportunity discovery intensive with the leaders of one of America’s…

If AI Hasn’t Made You Giggle, You’re Not Pushing Hard Enough

Go Pro in Innovation

This week I was invited to help a leading pro sports team build innovation capacity. Talk about a fun assignment.

Forget About “New Ideas”

“Is there anything of which one can say, ‘Look! This is something new’? 
It was here already, long ago; it was here…

Prune Your Ideas

Research from Stanford University suggests that it takes about 2,000 ideas to create a commercially successful new product or…

Make Space to Fail

“Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it’s going to…

Kindle What You Love

An all-too-typical email from an earnest founder at Stanford (“How do I know which of my ideas will ultimately command the…