Idea helpers: ways to grow ideas
The happier twin brother of idea killers are idea growers. Things you can say in response to ideas to…
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Idea killers: ways to stop ideas
In the creative thinking course I taught at the University of Washington, we spent time listing idea killers, statements…
Mindcamp 3.0: report
Seattle mindcamp was this past weekend and surprise: they let me in! Here’s the short report: The good: New…
The early days of dogfood
There’s a theory that everything we think is clever or new has been done before – well, in the…
(Seattle) Socrates cafe forming on eastside
I’m starting a philosophy discussion group here on the Eastside, and I need help. My rolodex of people that…
Great managers of innovation?
I’m writing chapter 9 of 10 (so close!) this week – its focused on how dependent, or not, innovation…
Legendary office pranks (w/photos)
I’ve seen my share of office pranks: filling an office floor to ceiling with packing peanuts, cover over the…
Time’s best inventions of 2006
Although this list isn’t in a web friendly top ten format, it’s certainly interesting to see what the folks…
Browser review: Opera 9.02
Rounding out this week of browser reviews: to be honest I can’t recall the last time I took a…
Browser review: IE 7 & Firefox 2.0
Something’s wrong if, after 5 and 2 years respectively, the two most popular web browsers deliver mutually low-key major…
How to know it’s November in Seattle
Book reviews: Engines of ingenuity & How Invention begins
Sometimes good books sneak up on you – you enjoy reading them, but their full value doesn’t surface until…
Good ideas/innovations that lost?
One myth that surfaces in innovation history is the faith that good ideas win: if a technology, product or…
This week in ux-clinic: managing sensitive designers
This week in the ux-clinic discussion group: I’m managing a small team of relatively young designers. They’re smart and…
This week in pm-clinic: Innovate or die
This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum: Is innovation for innovation’s sake a good idea? I think not, but…
Start-up camp: Nov 2&3 Mountain View
I know a bunch of you readers are in start-ups, or hopefully soon will be – Well, here’s the…
How to make an innovative book? (help wanted)
It’d be daft to write a book about innovation without some effort to make the book itself an innovative…
IDEA 2006 Conference: summary
I’m finally figuring out that small conferences are better in almost every respect than large ones. You can easily…
Can CounterStrike teach your team? (Video games as training tools)
One of the many great conversations I had at the Construx summit was about how games like Quake, CounterStrike…
Report from executive summit @ Construx
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at Construx’s annual executive summit: an exclusive small conference of executives…