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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:56:03 +0000

[...] I love Berkun’s The Myths of Innovation – nearly every idea in the book is worthwhile. But I don’t agree with him here. Of course we must execute more effectively. And yes, don’t believe the hype. And use language as precisely as possible. But I don’t think we can afford to throw out the concept of innovation just yet. I think there a lot of great ideas out there that we still need to execute. Like Unlike Share and Enjoy: [...]

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By: On Learning Reading and Baseball « DJ Bigalke's Blog

On Learning Reading and Baseball « DJ Bigalke's Blog — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:52:22 +0000

[...] it, but that was a case of the numbers working out more than me getting the process. To borrow steal a metaphor (and probably horribly misuse) from a friend, it was as if I had been digging and digging and when I understood, it was as if I had suddenly [...]

By: Sam MacAulay

Sam MacAulay — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:26:49 +0000

hmm….post-juice production: the orange pulp gets returned to the garden where it fertilizes and keeps creating…hmm maybe I just like oranges too much…

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:31:23 +0000

That’s a great point Ken – and I definitely agree. One of the things I’ve been doing more of recently is making sure that I have time where my mind is relatively unoccupied for that precise reason…

By: Ken Gillgren

Ken Gillgren — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:55:29 +0000

Well Tim, you pulled it out; I liked where you ended up and didn’t mind the journey to get there. That said…some of my biggest insights seem to come at some God-forsaken early hour of the morning, after I’ve totally released from a typically obsessive, brute force assault on a specific problem. Somehow all the pieces I’ve crammed into my head naturally settle into place at the point I stop trying to force them into the framework of an earlier “breakthrough.” So don’t deny yourself a bit of “white space” between the lines once in a while.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:13:53 +0000

That’s probably true John. The main point is that I want something that indicates ‘working’, but that might not be the best way to do it…

By: John

John — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:09:02 +0000

Hi Tim
Not sure the hole metaphor works. Isn’t innovation about ‘if you want to get out of the hole, stop digging’?
just a thought.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:58:09 +0000

Marco – I fully agree with your points in the last two paragraphs – I think that is the real reason I do this… and it works pretty well as an idea sorting tool.

Sam, not sure about the orange – there’s a replacement aspect to creative destruction that it’s important to capture…

By: Sam MacAulay

Sam MacAulay — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:29:26 +0000

creative destruction symbol hmm. Someone juicing an orange? You destroy the orange, but you get juice. Which rocks.