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Mine, Or Sell Tools To The Miners?
I read today that several Twitch influencers are feeling burned out because “if they ain’t gaming, they ain’t making” (money, that is.) It’s gotten to the extent that some of them turn…
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WORDLE, Innovation, Startups and Failure
Have you played WORDLE? If you haven’t, you’ve likely been under a rock – it’s a super popular word game that a developer supposedly invented as a time-waster while he was waiting…
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In A Complex World, Humans Are Slaves To The Exact
Do you know what product managers do? Do you know what startup founders do? In my view, the skill set for each of the above is pretty much the same. Product managers…
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boundless imitation
I want to go into Mimetic Theory in a little more detail – I’ve just been reading René Girard’s Mimetic Theory (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture), and the author makes some…
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don’t buy an electric car today, invent clean power generation tomorrow
Having a Tesla is all the rage around here – yes, I myself even put down a deposit on a Cybertruck – less for the fact that it’s electric and more for…
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How Do You Feel About Taking Risks?
After facing the future and feeling empowered to change yourself or your organization to design your ideal future, one of the next steps in my Foresight Leadership program is a risk assessment.…
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how to discover the secrets of great new products: do the least you can do, fake it before you make it, and don’t be afraid of embarrassment
Many startup founders (or corporate innovators) have an issue with the concept of an MVP. The definition of a Minimum Viable Product varies greatly – but in the purest sense, it should be…
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calling all founders: to build a platform for all humans
Many people bemoan that we have to keep moving from platform to platform, as they evolve from person-to-person communications tools to megaphones for big media. Take podcasting, for example: I first heard…
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Will 96% of Businesses Fail Within 10 Years?
When I read that statistic, I thought it pretty odd. I mean, are the companies that are around us now all less than ten years old? Are they all part of that…
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Popsockets: An Innovation Story
TL;DR: Inventor has a problem, invents a product to solve his problem, tries the product out with friends and family, friends and family use the product for a completely different purpose, inventor…
