Category Archives: Innovation

What I Learned About Business From the Dancing Subway Guy

Living near a big city has its advantages. One of the greatest things I love is public transportation (and the answer is no, I am not crazy). But there are plenty of unique people that ride the rails through the city of Chicago. Like many philosophers of old and new, I like to learn from [...]

A lot of Innovation Comes Down to A lot of Destroying

Imagine that you spent an entire year building a beautiful home in the woods. Your dream home. Each day you woke-up early, chopped down some trees, shaped your wood, and laid piece by piece to build your home. It wasn’t easy work, but you enjoyed it. All day long, you built and built, slowly putting [...]

The “Stop” and “Go” Effect of Your Ideas

It seems a bad thing and detrimental to the creative work of the mind if Reason makes too close an examination of the ideas as they come pouring in—at the very gateway, as it were. Looked at in isolation, a thought may seem very trivial or very fantastic; but it may be made important by [...]