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From Henry David Thoreau’s journal:

“Find out as soon as possible what are the best things in your composition and then shape the rest to fit them. The former will be the midrib and veins of the…

I battle an internal suspicion that I’m too naive for business. Maybe I think too big, measure obstacles as too small, and expect too much? But maybe we live too small, ask too few important questions, focus on the middle…

Can a group of eclectic and divergent innovators pick winners in ways “experienced” veterans can’t? Is experience all it’s made out to be when the game is new ventures?

I keep running into amazing people. Each one stuck in a job that uses a tiny part of what they’re great at. Here’s a plan to use a bit more.

Here’s an unsolved riddle: How do we get the minds of widely dispersed, brilliant people to focus on critical problems/opportunities? How do we synchronize greatness?

Dave Pollard brought this up a few days ago. He writes:

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Innovative brilliance is fortuitous. It’s an accident. The challenge is moving beyond serendipity and to intention.

How do we invite brilliant people to try and fail quickly, over and over again, in very small ways?

When do we get to play? Why does brilliance need an excuse?

From wikipedia on the Slovay Conference:

“Perhaps the most famous conference was the October 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons, where the world’s most notable physicists met to discuss the newly formulated quantum theory. The

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When you dream of an ideal space to do what you do best, what does it look like, sound like, and feel like?

From Les invasions barbares (2003):

“Intelligence isn’t an individual trait. It’s collective, national, and intermittent.

Athens, BC – Euripides premieres his Electra. Two rivals attend, Sophocles and Aristophanes. And two friends, Socrates and Plato.
Intelligence was there.

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From sites around the net: “brilliant”, “genius”, “inspiring”.

The world is begging for wonderful.

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To work with people that have embraced their brilliance. To work with people who are brilliant. People who intend to shine.

I want to work on innovation, creativity, and insight. I’m keen on educating for creativity and insight, creating markets…

The difference between success and obscurity is self-knowing.

Intuition drives science and entrepreneurial innovation. Why doesn’t it play harder at the boardroom table?

“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of taking walks daily … who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.” Henry David Thoreau

I am…

Back to perfect, one million one-dollar products vs. one million dollar products, and all these entail:

- the kind of client

- the kind of product

- the kind of work

- the kind of peers

- etc.

In…