Yesterday I had the great fortune to sit in on one of Google’s internal Design Thinking workshops where the participants were reminded of the incredible power of saying “yes, and…” as opposed to “no, but…”

In 1992 Robin Dunbar suggested that the cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships — relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person — is about 150.

Remember the infamous scene from the movie Office Space where Bob and Bob ask the obnoxious question: “What would you say… you do here?”

As painfully funny as the scene is, I am fairly sure you get the question asked all the time — alas in a…

Yesterday Kevin Starr (kevin starr), Managing Director of the Mulago Foundation, joined me for a fireside chat at Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program. Kevin is a real rock star (no pun!) in the impact investing space, being one of the earliest actors in the field continuously pushing the…

Last weekend at Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program we ran an Unconference where we had both our participants as well as a group of guests present topics they are passionate and knowledgeable about.

You’ll find plenty of advice on how to get started. And you’ll read tons of stories about those who made it. But the real interesting stuff, the things you hear little about, is the middle. People call it the grind, nose to the grindstone, the hustle, the work…

I am typing this while sitting in a rapid prototyping session by the incredible Tom Chi, former Head of Experience at Google X and inventor of Google Glass (amongst many other things).

Tom is taking SingularityU’s Global Solutions Program participants through a…

For a while now I start my “Exponential Disruption” talk with the note that I want to get the participants to “feel” exponential change, not just intellectually understand it.

Early in my talk, I explain the power of exponentials by speaking about Moore’s…