• OODA Loop

    We used to navigate by the stars. Now we have 2.7 seconds to decide who lives and dies. Welcome to the OODA loop.


  • Ignorant, Incompetent, Functionally Stupid, or Just Plain Dumb?

    Being ignorant means you’re in the dark. Ignorance can be charming; it’s what makes children and dogs cute.


  • The Innovative Stance

    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.


  • Interbrain Synchrony

    The hippies were right all along: brain-to-brain synchrony is really a thing.


  • Zen and the Art of System Dynamics : Pirsig’s Philosophy and the Connected World

    When a baby is born, it’s not aware of itself as a separate entity. All there is in the beginning, is quality.


  • Into The Soft Zone

    Where adults need to protect their fragile zone with headphones, nicotine and seclusion, kids naturally invite whatever the world serves up and use it creatively.


  • The Automation Paradox : Losing Mastery in the Age of Machine Assistance

    The shift from nitty gritty to ever more elevated levels of abstractions has been a trend in technology for so long, that it almost seems inevitable.


  • The Sim-To-Real Gap

    While watching babies and kittens learn by doing is cute, you don’t want a soon-to-be autonomous car cruising your neighborhood to pick up traffic rules.


  • Distributed Cognition

    When you forget the details of some complicated concept and have to consult an external resource, that’s distributed cognition.


  • On Focus: The Power of Switching Between Attention and Diffusion

    Our brains are built to toggle back and forth between sharp and fuzzy. Proper learning can only happen in the interplay between daydreaming and attention