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Sustainability + Human Development Is the food we eat scalable, sustainable, healthy, nutritious and tasty? Is the air we breathe clean? Is the water we drink pure? Is there a way to produce energy that is relatively abundant, cheap and clean? Is there a way to reverse or mitigate climate chan...
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Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.
Founders Fund Delian Asparouhov on Miami as a major tech hub, what he thinks as the drivers for innovation now, and the pros of incubating companies like Varda within firms
open.spotify.comP&G used to have somebody in charge of what they called commercial innovation, which is broadly defined as selling your product in different ways, without fundamentally changing the product itself.
Rail travel is a great example of an industry that is ripe for commercial innovation.
In Germany they have the BahnCard. A 25, 50, or 100 BahnCard are... See more
Rail travel is a great example of an industry that is ripe for commercial innovation.
In Germany they have the BahnCard. A 25, 50, or 100 BahnCard are... See more
Rory Sutherland on LinkedIn: #creativity #behaviouralscience #traintravel #positioning | 155 comments
When you’re focused on something few others are thinking about, you find yourself constantly making the case to yourself and others that your vision is worth pursuing and worthy of other people’s attention. This ongoing need to justify your work creates a significant emotional overhead.
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Clayton M. Christensen • 3 highlights
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Almost everything that makes up our world first appeared in a solitary head—the innovations, the tools, the images, the stories, the prophecies, and religions—it did not come from the center, it came from those who ran from it.