Perhaps to have a hernia to thank. In 1942, Eric Hoffer attempted to enlist in the armed forces in San Francisco was rejected because of a hernia. A former migratory worker and longshoreman, Hoffer received laudatory notices in 1951 for his book The True Believer. . Of his early life, ..
A few years ago I came across an essay by David Mamet called “The Audience: Or, lessons from duck hunting. (Bambi vs. Godzilla, 2007) It has resonated with me ever since. “A duck decoy doesn’t need to look like a duck. It needs to look like a duck to a duck. Wisdom, therefore, lies not ..
It all began with a spontaneous comment by host Saul Kaplan on the second day of the BIF5 Collaborative Innovation Summit. After thanking two of the speakers, he made the observation there is a strong connection between vulnerability and innovation. The bloggers and tweeters, all noted the ..
Since the publication of The Laws of Simplicity, John Maeda has become the patron saint of the art balancing simplicity and complexity. A former professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Maeda taught media arts and sciences there for 12 years and served as associate director of ..
In the relatively tiny geography of business magazine world, it was the equivalent of a pre-1981 Beatles reunion. Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, co-founders of Fast Company magazine, took the stage together at BIF5 for the first time in many years. It was easy to see the synergy they brought to ..