Slow thoughts

It would be smart if we could incentivise up-and-coming players to compete on ideas and execution, rather than on who’s got the bigger machine.

There’s a lot to like about Hello Tomorrow. What attracts me the most has to do with its tonality.

The other day I got a whiff of what it must have been like to have been part of the golden age of ARPA and NASA.

Over the last few months, I’ve often felt like a street-fighting urchin who’s put in a karate class; instinctively rebellious against any meddling with what’s already battle-tested. But again and again, I’ve had to accept that going back to first principles and carefully build up a new conceptual framework, has been worth the effort.

Entrepreneurs aren’t looking to understand the world such as it ‘really is’. They just need to get a good enough grasp of a given context.

Ideation can only happen within a demarcated design space, and the inherent paradox there of course, is that you won’t know where to draw the lines of that space until you’ve developed a fair idea of what you’ll ideate about.

World expos might have played out their roles today, but historically they’ve had three important functions to fill.

His soft spoken reflectiveness feels about as far away from your typical tech-bro as is possible to imagine.

If all you care about is to perfect your process, a great product will eventually follow.

Just because it’s patentable doesn’t mean it works.

A good framework paves a way for the mind, making it easier to grasp a reality which will always remain chaotic in its essence.

Great ideas are often met with fierce resistance and then suddenly become the new norm seemingly over-night.