Category: Leadership
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Frameplay: Prologue.
For two hundred thousand years or so, humanity innovated in two ways: – Replication: Imitating something seen, as is. – Serendipity: Surprising findings, eureka moments, strikes of inspiration encountered by an individual. The insight is then replicated by the whole community. Then, 2,500 years ago, philosophy emerged, most especially with pre-Socratic thinkers like Heraclitus.…
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Frameplay: Introduction
Hi! I’m Lauri. Last summer I took two months out of life to write a book. A book about innovation. More exactly, a book about how to have an idea. Five weeks into working, things began to make sense. A book about how we think about the world. A book about how to think about…
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The perils of becoming a dollar sign.
I was sitting at the bar at the restaurant inside a hotel I particularly like. I love this restaurant. It’s a semi-fancy restaurant, and it’s a little old fashioned and bland, but it reminds me of my great grandmother’s house, for some reason, so I love it. Whenever I visit this spot, I usually keep…
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Toolkit for the soul: From Zero to Privie and back.
We are not back to Zero, really. We still have the old articles. We have a similar look and feel. We have a team. We have an idea of where we are headed to. We don’t have a Vision yet, but you know, baby steps. We are back to almost Zero. Semi Zero? An irrational…