A few days ago I saw a documentary on Discovery HD Theater called "BMW: An Expression of Joy" where artist Robin Rhode attached paint spray nozzles to the tires of a BMW Z4 and used the vehicle as a paintbrush on a large canvas. You can see the result and more info on this at the [...]
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I'd like to thank JD Meier for reminding me of the importance of small wins this morning through his blog post "Don't Always Go for the Long Shot". It's a great reminder that success doesn't come all at once.
Everyone wants to be successful. Entrepreneurs want successful businesses. Athletes want to win. Engineers want to build [...]
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I got a laugh out of bbraithwaite's post at Applied Game Design on the parallels between a Lead Game Designer and a college's Department Chair:
One ships games, the other ships students and a designs a sandbox game (termed “a curriculum”) in which players (termed “students”) can build the right collection of assets and resources (termed [...]
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Do you challenge the conventional wisdom? Or do you tend to stick with what you know?
It’s in our natural human tendency to stick with what we know, despite knowing that moving toward the future requires us to challenge today’s ideas. It’s part of our survival instinct to stick with what we know, but this mindset is also what [...]
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Embedding non-image data inside an image isn’t a new trick, but some reddit commenters are finding that data for a Spore creature is uniquely embedded in the .PNG file that can be downloaded from the creature’s Sporepedia entry.
While some commenters originally discovered data embedded in the alpha channel of the image, they now believe the data [...]
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The trip was good, relaxing, and I hardly thought of events back home. I went back to work today with a fresh perspective and readiness I haven’t had in a while.
I read two books and got about halfway through on a third. One of the books I read was The Myths of Innovation, by [...]
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I was sent this article on MSNBC about Toyota and its innovation-centric practices. It reminded me of a manifesto I read on ChangeThis (excellent site by the way), and of course that motivated me to write up a quick thought on innovation..
Innovative thinking in the corporate environment is not a big bang idea like the [...]
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Harvard Business Review had an article in its April 2008 issue called Reverse Engineering Google’s Innovation Machine in which the authors revealed their research to uncover Google’s innovation secrets. Apparently much of the research was done through discussion with Google employees, reading Google’s public blogs, and other forms of public information, so it’s not like [...]
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