Alexandra Smith
@alexandraleighs
journalist. design thinker. strategist.
Alexandra Smith
Articulate the ideas that capture your imagination. ✨
Innovation begins with inspiration. Positive visions of the future inject people with imagination, which pulls the future forward.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
Synthesis as art:
- “First of all, synthesizing involves artistry . To create a work or treatment of significant size and to convey it effectively to others requires a sense of form, of arrangement of parts, of the attention and predilection of audiences, of launching, development, and closure . All of these skills are identified particularly with th
Howard Gardner • A Look Inside “A Synthesizing Mind” by Howard Gardner (Book Summary)
Generalists are important at observing everything and seeking out a particular something that is most relevant for specialists to pursue. A generalist is a divergent thinker who is in touch with a large realm of possibilities.
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
Slowly, through iteration, intuition, and conversation, a thesis emerged: the future of knowledge work is about jailbreaking out of the productivity paradigm to pursue the weird, the emotionally resonant, the creative, the sublime. And getting there takes time. —Sari Azout
I had a conversation a few days ago with one of the most rockstar women I know.
She said: “I don’t want to lead my own thing. I want to be a first follower who passionately supports a mission I care about, and enables teams to do their best work.”
Her level of awareness and conviction has lingered on my mind. It made me realize that a lot of peo... See more
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