How ideas escape their prisons
In a series of posts, called readers choice, I write on whatever topics people submit. This week: Helping great…
Category: Innovation
Stop Reinventing Wheels – BusinessWeek
My latest article for Business Week is now up: Stop trying to Reinvent the Wheel: Right now, in meetings…
Do sci-fi movies impact the future?
Today I was reading yet another article about how a movie, in this case Iron Man 2, shows a…
Inside Pixar’s Leadership
There were plenty of high profile people at the Economist event in March, but hands down the best session…
Should the web be allowed in class?
There’s a fantastic discussion on metafilter about whether college students should be able to use the web during class…
5 lost truths on Innovation – My speech at The Economist
Below is a transcript of a short speech (video at bottom) I gave at the The Economist’s Ideas Economy event…
The iPad and Innovation Theory
I’m not much for speculation – when people guess about how a product will do I think there’s much…
Need a word for an interesting idea
Was talking today with someone about this: A movie comes out (Movie X) and is very influential. Many other…
Ada Lovelace Could Kick Your Ass
Few people know that Ada Lovelace was likely the first computer programmer in history. She made my list of…
Don’t be original, just be good
As another way of making the arguments I made in Good beats innovative nearly every time, here’s graphic design…
Good beats innovative nearly every time (repost)
Go here to read this article.
Microsoft and Creative Destruction
A recent NYT article by former Microsoft VP Dick Brass has caused quite the stir, but for the wrong…
The future of UI – interview on CBC
The folks at CBC’s Spark show interviewed me about the future of UI, and the boring post. Good stuff…
Challenging Newton’s Apple
Recently The Royal Society put their copy of the best evidence in the world about the fabled story of…
The Limits of Innovation
My post on why the future of UI will be boring has upset people. I clarified that although my…
The Secret About Innovation Secrets
The word secret runs rampant not only in business magazines, but also in self-help books. To our general disappointment,…
The new serendipity?
One old argument in the history of tech progress is the tragic loss of a side effect of an…
The explosion of innovation books
Nice bit of research on the spike in numbers of books with the word innovation in the title. Based…
Why Google won’t create the next twitter (a critique)
Sloppy logic is fun to throw around and there are certain popular patterns of slop thrown around when talking…
Video: extended Q&A at RIM in Waterloo
From awhile back here’s a video of an experiment in public speaking – instead of doing the same song…