Is the shower or bathroom one of your most productive places in terms of idea generation? Never sure how to best capture new concepts? Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools recommends using a dive slate, a small sheet of sturdy white plastic ...READ»
I first learned about TRIZ and its approach to creative problem solving last June. Thanks to a recent blog post by Kevin Kelly, I'm revisiting Genrich Altshuler's design strategies for inventing -- a summary of engineering design ...READ»
xBlog recently steered us to the Reactual Institute's Meta Efficient project, a "guide to the most efficient things in the world." The organizers consider products and services in terms of energy and resource use, cost, reliability, ...READ»
In this age of user-generated content and citizen journalism, it might seem like newspapers are becoming yesterday's news. But there's more life in them yet.READ»
The bibliography of books written by this year’s Pop!Tech speakers is pretty staggering, from Richard Dawkins’s new book, The God Delusion, to Thomas Barnett’s Blueprint for Action, to Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat, to ...READ»
So many people are interested in who else is on this list and where they rank that I thought it would be helpful to share with you the next 30. So here they are:
21. Jeffrey Pfeffer
22. Philip Kotler
23. Robert C. Merton
24. C.K. ...READ»
Half a century ago, management guru Peter Drucker introduced the concept of the knowledge worker. Today his grandson, Nova Spivack, is trying to turn their knowledge into something more than the sum of the parts and boost their ...READ»