Shooting Stars
Dedicated (with apologies) to email subscribers who received a three word “Constellation” a few hours ago… …the Seriph, in his bijou wildernessette, has just riffled… Read More »Shooting Stars
Dedicated (with apologies) to email subscribers who received a three word “Constellation” a few hours ago… …the Seriph, in his bijou wildernessette, has just riffled… Read More »Shooting Stars
I really liked this post from Seth Godin on 22nd February: That might not be the right questionThe thing is, everyone has ideas. All the… Read More »Seth Godin on “Where do you get your ideas?”
Your idea is not valuable, at all. All value is in the execution. You think you are an exception; you are not. Patrick McKenzie So…… Read More »Patrick McKenzie on the value of your idea
About 50 people pass through DriverlessCrocodile each day (Welcome!). If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that 50 people is plenty for something contagious to spread.… Read More »50 a day (shopfront)
… with very few exceptions, man-made technologies evolve from previous man-made technologies and are not invented from scratch. This is a key characteristic with evolutionary… Read More »Matt Ridley on the Wright Brothers: innovation is gradual
So who invented the motor car running on an internal combustion engine? Like the steam engine – and as I will show later, the computer… Read More »Innovation as network phenomenon: Matt Ridley on who invented the motor car
This morning I listened to Nicholas Bloom lamenting the current absence of conferences and seminars in the Covid-19 era in part because of the loss… Read More »Selective serendipity: places, people, ideas
Note: these are a series of excerpts from a longer discussion – link below. I think it [Innovation] is the most important thing that happens… Read More »Matt Ridley: 15 principles of innovation from “How Innovation Works”
[Public service announcement for email subscribers: sorry for the unfinished post you may have received out of the weekend – I was having issues with… Read More »Matt Ridley: invention vs innovation
Watching skate videos – try this one, or this one – is great. You can kind of imagine doing those tricks. Watching beginner “how to”… Read More »Gravity bites