We don’t want to throw away the baby with the bathwater. Get rid of the soiled, unwanted; keep the precious. This is why most entrepreneurs talk about “the pivot” and not a leap. A leap means lunging into the void, leaving everything behind, with all...
When we look back at history, we rarely think about inventions outside of the context of how they changed things after they appeared and got adopted. A different and interesting way of thinking about it is in reverse. How were things BEFORE their invention? If you...
Selling customer outcomes instead of just features is a better way to connect with their needs. It will always be a better way to sell the value of a product or a service. But as automobile commercials like to say, “your mileage may vary”, and you can...
Well, maybe. I love charts and beautiful and imaginative ways of representing data, and I discovered a new type of chart -at least for me- because of the labor of love of a gentleman called Phineas. You can see how plastic waste is processed HERE, in his appropriately...
The “uncanny valley” is a term first translated in 1978 from professor Masahiro Mori’s ‘bukimi no tani genshō’, and it was first used to refer to human replicas that appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings and how these...
You know that thing that looks like the old version of it? The “radio” app on your smartphone that looks like an old timer radio, with dial and all? Or the eBook reader that turns pages and has a spine and you can see the edges of all the pages? The...
