Being able to get what you need and then leave without paying a transaction cost is not a bad position to be in. Will our society reach a point where we are saturated with free…
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Change Your Perspective
“The task is…not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.” –Erwin Schrodinger, quantum physicist How do you think differently…
4 quotes from Frank Herbert
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”— Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune “A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process,…
3 quotes on leadership, emergence, and business architecture.
Three of my favorite quotes on leadership, emergence, business architecture: “Iteration of redesign and need for continual improvement increasingly removes slack and redundancies from the system and makes the interdependencies among the parts more and more…
Innovation matters in politics.
A number of friends in politics have asked me recently about the role that design and innovation can play in creating effective civic systems. The three articles below offer perspective on innovation and politics. As…
Leaders make their own gravity.
Leaders build organizations around a common vision. It may require bold, decisive action that is counter to popular opinion. Leadership isn’t for everyone and it can be lonely at times. Want to know how to…