The innovator's guide
to compounding connections
The previous post discussed Claude Shannon’s lifelong question, “What’s a better way to get information?” This question gnawed at the Father of the Information Age from his boyhood fence-telegraph to MIT’s differential analyzer to wartime cipher machines at Bell Labs. Each of these systems was innovative yet overbuilt, weighed down by its own complexity. Now … Read more
It was the 1920s in rural Michigan, not far from the little logging town of Gaylord, and a skinny boy in a wool cap was wondering, “What’s a better way to get information?” He had connected a battery to the wire fence that ran to his friend’s house half a mile away. The fence wire … Read more
It has been more than half a century since Bruce Lee passed away, but the evolution he experienced from a potential career-ending injury serves as a lesson for innovators, improvisors, and creators of all stripes. Lee demonstrated what I call transformation through refraction. For those who only know Bruce Lee as an actor performing choreographed … Read more
