Connecting the Dots

This is what I want to talk about today, networked knowledge, like dot-connecting of the florilegium, and combinatorial creativity, which is the essence of what Picasso and Paula Scher describe. The idea that in order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a we... See more

The Hummingbird Effect may sound a lot like the Butterfly Effect from chaos theory where the flap of a butterfly's wings starts a typhoon in China. But the two ideas are totally different. Chaos theory tells us there are so many variables in life that you simply can't trace the chain of causality backwards because it's too complex. A small change l... See more

While talking to a friend earlier this week, I realized that many of my best projects started out as what seemed like a distraction from more pressing work – ignoring my email inbox to read an interesting thread on Twitter or abandonning a work presentation for an hour to grab a coffee with a colleague.

These so-called distractions would plant the s... See more