I spend a good bit of time trying to understand how creative cultures organically grow within business organizations. Many argue that creative organizations never grow inside entrenched non-innovative environments, but I don’t accept that conclusion. CEO’s are not antagonistic as they once were, and many are genuine proponents. The notion of “innovate or die” in [...]
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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Apr 25
Inside the Head of a Hoarder
Everyone knows someone who may be an over-the-top collector. There are no stones being thrown in this cluttered glass house, many of us have our secret junk closets or garage-brimming sets of collections. It appears, however, there may be a fine line between serial collectors and true hoarders. This short article from DISCOVER Magazine was [...]
Apr 08
A Musing about Muses
Of all of her five years of life, perhaps the last thirty minutes had been the longest for her to live through. Frustration had begun half an hour earlier and had been slowly building. Now the the frustration had risen to the level of a pressure cooker, evidencing itself by the pained look on her [...]
Apr 03
Direct Brain-Computer Interfaces – No longer science fiction
Every young geek at some point has longed for the ‘direct brain to computer’ interface. The Matrix movie series took the concept to science fantasy. Now super-heroes of science are connecting computers directly to the brain, and the brain… is typing. This short and approachable video presentation from Stanford University is equally scientifically fascinating and [...]