Studio Notes
Weekly essays on the decisions behind innovation—the patterns that repeat, the mistakes that are predictable, and what actually works.
The Parenting Decision That Will Define Your Child's Future
From Silicon Valley to homeschool to grandparent: the framework that's guided our family through decades of technology adoption decisions.
Why We Have Fewer Friends Than Our Grandparents (And It's Not What You Think)
Our drive for efficiency destroyed the "inefficient" moments where real relationships form—and we're paying the price in unprecedented isolation.
Beyond Rebranding: How Successful Companies Reinvent Without Losing Their Soul
Nokia, Fujifilm, Nintendo, and LEGO - the real-world playbook of companies that fundamentally changed their business model while preserving their authentic DNA
Technological Quicksand: Why More Technology Keeps Making Things Worse
Our addiction to technological fixes creates a quicksand cycle of deeper problems and endless digital dependencies.
Innovation's Underground Economy
Your innovation process is the problem, not the solution. The more you formalize creativity, the faster it disappears into the shadows. The question isn't whether your organization has an innovation underground—it's whether you have the courage to see it, embrace it, and harness its power.
The Courage to Create Nothing
Standing still in a rushing world isn't weakness—it's strategic wisdom. True visionaries master the art of saying no when innovation becomes an end rather than a means.
Original Ideas Don't Exist
Innovation happens at the intersection of existing knowledge, challenging the notion that anyone truly creates rather than connects what came before.
The Innovation Crisis: How We're Stifling Our Children's Creative Potential—And How to Set It Free
A 12-year-old entrepreneur highlights the gap between education and innovation. What happens when we value answers over inquiry, and how might we unlock our children's natural creative abilities?
The 36-Hour Lesson: When Reliability Made My Innovation Career
The flashiest ideas don't change the world—follow-through does. While we worship creative geniuses, reliable warriors who execute transform industries.
Intellectual Generosity: Why Sharing Ideas Creates More Value Than Protecting Them
Giving away your best thinking generates unexpected returns. Your best ideas create more value when shared freely rather than guarded jealously.
