What to do if the world hates your idea
One of my most popular blog posts ever, how to write a book, generates tons of comments and e-mail…
Category: Innovation
Favorite MLK quote on tech innovation
On days like this when someone famous is honored, I try to dig up something they wrote to compare…
Podcast/Slides from Web Directions 07 finally up
This was a special talk for two reasons. First, as my opening story explains, I delivered a special surprise…
The untold story of the i-phone
There’s a very good piece in Wired on how the i-phone was made. Unlike most coverage of the i-phone…
Stop Saying Innovation – Here’s Why
[Update: an edited version of this post was published at The Economist] I’m confident in this advice: Stop using the word…
Video/podcast from my talk at Lunch 2.0
The talk I did at Lunch 2.0 a few weeks ago at the F5 office in downtown Seattle is…
When genius bombs
Thanks to everyone who sent in articles on geniuses in response to my how to be a genius essay.…
Most interesting video you’ll see today
The new IAC building in Chelsea (NYC) has one of the world’s largest video screens, and this media professor…
The best innovation paper you’ve never read
It’s rare to find a short, well written paper than nails a subject popular books get wrong. If you…
The 8 challenges innovations face
In chapter 3 of The Myths of Innovation, I explore why innovation methodologies are prone to fail. It’s not…
The future of the laptop: designed by kids
Amy Tieneman at CNET wrote about a school project, where kids design, and play with, their own paper based…
Does Google 2008 = Microsoft 1998?
This is a question I’ve thought about often (See Google’s ten rules compared to Microsoft). Before I give my…
Lessons from amazing projects: Russian Ark
We’ve all had tough projects, but this one might just top them all, and it hits on three of…
Innovation quote of the day
“It often happens, with regard to new inventions, that one part of the general public finds them useless and…
Does open source help or hurt innovation?
Over at the Jem Report, Jem Matzan had some great questions for me about how my studies of innovation…
Make your own DVD commentary: Overcast Media
I don’t write about it often but I’m a huge film fan. For awhile now I’ve known about the…
In defense of brainstorming
I’m no brainstorming zealot – there are many ways idea generation techniques out there and they all have their…
Innovation at big companies
There are two excellent posts on Dare Obsjano’s blog about innovation in big companies. The first is on innovation…
Interview on The Well: your questions wanted
This week I’m being interviewed on The Well by Scott Underwood of IDEO and other Well members about The…
Innovation history: the bouncing bomb
One highlight of my research in innovation history is the story of Barnes Wallis and the bouncing bomb of…