Innovation Library
A growing collection of innovation tools, thinking frameworks, and hard-won lessons. Use them however they serve you.
These are the frameworks, definitions, and lessons I return to again and again. Use them however they serve you.
Ghost Research
The retracted science still shaping decisions nobody knows to question. Why the correction never reaches the pipeline it contaminated.
Scientific studies are currently being retracted at a rate of sixteen per day. Most of the decisions built on them are still standing. Ghost research is the framework for understanding the gap between when science is proven false and when the world built on it catches up, and what that gap costs when it sits inside an R&D organization.
Innovation Laundering
The systematic relabeling of optimization and infrastructure spending as innovation — and why the distance between what companies file and what the press prints is getting wider.
Big Tech committed $720 billion in AI capital expenditure in 2026. The press called it a research boom. The filings tell a different story. This is the framework for understanding how the word "innovation" gets laundered through successive layers of corporate communication, and what it costs when nobody corrects the record.
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Thinking Skills Learning Path
The thinking skills that separate world-class innovators from everyone else, organized into a structured curriculum you can actually follow.
Three stages. Forty-plus videos. Built for the person who's serious about developing this as a real skill, not just consuming content about it.
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Innovation Signal Index™
A framework for detecting whether a company's innovation investment is building or eroding competitive advantage years before it shows up in financial results.
The ISI analyzes publicly available data to find signals that precede major shifts in competitive position. Validated through backtesting across semiconductors, consumer electronics, specialty materials, and enterprise infrastructure. Wall Street's favorite innovation metric failed every test. The ISI didn't.
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Mindjacking
The systematic capture of your ability to think independently — and how to recognize it before it's complete.
Every day, four systems compete to do your thinking for you: algorithms, advertising, AI, and social proof. They don't announce themselves. They don't ask permission. They just quietly replace your judgment with theirs. This is the framework for understanding how it works and what to do about it.
Innovation Frameworks
The structured approaches I've developed and used across thousands of innovation decisions. FIRE. Box Think. Disruptive Shock. Each one born from real challenges, refined through application, and shared freely.
Not theory from a textbook. Tools from the arena.
Innovation Storytelling
The best idea in the room loses to the best-told idea in the room. Every time.
I've spent decades learning how to communicate innovation — to boards, to teams, to skeptics. This is what I've learned about making ideas land.
Innovation Glossary
Words matter. The innovation world is full of jargon — some useful, most not.
This is a plain-language guide to the terms, frameworks, and thinking tools that actually matter. No buzzwords. Clear definitions.