Innovation resulting from
unique connections
“The best ideas are born from the union of disparate thoughts.” – Unknown Befor September 11, 2001, the idea to take down skyscrapers using commercial airplanes had not occurred to many people. It had obviously occurred to some people, including the group of terrorists who had been secretly plotting for months, but it had … Read more
You may wonder if anyone can put together singular links, or if certain people are better at it than others. Spoiler alert, yes, anyone can. However, since there are many different kinds of brains, some people are better at making certain types of connections than others. Harold Gardner, developmental psychologist, researcher, and educator, formulated the … Read more
Sometimes it seems that everything in the known universe has already been comprehensively explored, discovered, labeled, mapped, dissected, cross-examined, catalogued, abbreviated, acronymified, domain-named, and proffered at the low low price. “Operators are standing by!” Google Maps has rendered naked every square mile of the planet’s ample surface. Wikipedia has ambitiously aggregated the entire stockpile of … Read more