Category: Ideas We Like

  • Victory Lap

    Times of adversity are a constraint that can produce incredible creativity. My own productivity kicked into high gear during this period of fear and uncertainty. The race now run, a victory lap’s in order — just long enough to rejoice, reflect and recover — before a return to the starting line.

  • Convene, listen and lead

    A few years ago, I hosted a series of closed-door salons with industry pioneers and our graduate students. In those pre-pandemic days, we met in person, enjoyed some appetizers and communed with visionary leaders from my professional network. As we pondered how to continue to ignite such high-value connections this past year, my successor and…

  • The future of work will change why we work

    The French — the bon vivants that they are — like to say they work to live, while Americans live to work. Obviously, nearly all of are motivated economically to work. But how we earn also defines us. As the first guest for season 2 of the XR Seattle podcast, I stated: “Why we do…

  • The war on reality is a war for reality

    Powered by technology, we get to choose what’s real, and what best suits our own stories. We’re all gaming reality. And the stakes are high whatever we choose to believe: Q-Anon, voter fraud, GameStop, coronavirus, climate change, 1/6, Sandy Hook, the Parkland shooting. Belief is membership. The more who sign up, the more it makes…