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I Wore a Red Badge Inside the NSA. Here's What Happened.

I mastered probabilistic thinking in my algorithm. Then made every wrong bet with my business.

I Wore a Red Badge Inside the NSA. Here's What Happened.

HP Won Innovation Awards. Then Killed What Made It True.

Three years on the Most Innovative list. Thirteen years absent. Here's what changed—and what it proves about causation.

HP garage (AI image) used as symbolism to the innovation culture that Bill Hewlett and David Packard created. Art Fong taught Phil McKinney what it mean to be HP.

Kroger Copied HP's Innovation Playbook Perfectly. It Failed Anyway.

The invisible reasoning error that cost 18 months—and why you're probably making it right now

Kroger Copied HP's Innovation Playbook Perfectly. It Failed Anyway.

I Told the Department of Education Their Graduates Were Useless

The room went silent. But I'd been watching this crisis unfold for decades—starting on a factory floor in 1981

I Told the Department of Education Their Graduates Were Useless

The Thinking Hack That Built Billion-Dollar Companies

While competitors think harder, start thinking laterally—the systematic method for finding breakthrough innovations hiding in plain sight.

The Thinking Hack That Built Billion-Dollar Companies