Here are 5 quotes about design by Paul Rand that caught my attention: “The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his…
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Reflections on writing 700 blog posts
A few days ago I published my 700th daily blog post. Here are a few notes on the experience and what I’ve learned along the way: I started in early 2015 and the first 90…
How you do it
It’s not what you do, but how you do it that is important. Competition vs co-creation? Exclusive vs. inclusive? Engineered vs. designed? Authoritative vs. collaborative? Economy vs. ecology? Strategic orientation vs. strategic experimentation?
Life on the fringe
If everyone is striving for novelty or positioning themselves to be an outlier, then what happens to the people occupying the mainstream? The mainstream will always exist as the foundation of our culture and society….
Making sense of the whole
How does one make sense of the whole when a person’s focus becomes fragmented from the volume of information coming at them? Losing the ability to see the big picture could cause one to drown…
Pattern recognition
“We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment’s scenarios. Pattern recognition.” — William Gibson, Pattern Recognition Patterns exist on macro and micro…