This document discusses creating space for exploration, asking questions, examining realities, and discussing ideas. It encourages doing a large volume of work to improve skills and notes most creative people experience a phase where their work is not as good as they want it to be. The document suggests finding leverage points to create change and inventing the future through generosity with time, ideas and emotions.
13. “The people who are doing the work
are the moving force behind the
Macintosh. My job is to
create a space for them,
to clear out the rest of the
organization and keep it at bay.’’
--Steve Jobs
15. This is a space to
ask questions
examine realities
explore possibilities
discuss ideas
16. We want you to
be as good as
you want to/can be
17. “...for the first couple years that you're making
stuff, what you're making isn't so good… it's
really not that great. It's trying to be good, it has
ambition to be good, but it's not quite that good.
But your taste, the thing that got you into the
game, your taste is still killer. And your taste is
good enough that you can tell that what you're
making is kind of a disappointment to you, you
know what I mean?
18. …A lot of people never get past that phase. A lot
of people at that point, they quit. And the thing I
would say to you with all my heart is that most
everybody I know who does interesting, creative
work, they went through a phase of years where
they had really good taste, they could tell what
they were making wasn't as good as they
wanted it to be, they knew it fell short… it didn't
have that special thing that we wanted it to
have… Everybody goes through that…
19. you gotta know it's totally normal, and the most
important possible thing you can do is do a lot
of work. Do a huge volume of work. Put
yourself on a deadline so that every week or
every month you know you're gonna finish one
story… You create the deadline… [I]t's only by
actually going through a volume of work that
you're going to catch up and close that gap
and the work that you're making will be as
good as your ambitions.”
-- Ira Glass
20. We want you to
be as good as
you want to/can be
with your thoughts, too
21. “...the production of information
sharpens the mind and
clarifies your thoughts.”
-- Clay Johnson
22. We want you to
have good tools,
that sometimes
we didn’t have,
until recently
23. H+E Conceptual Toolkit antiauthority
the Velcro theory of
forced testable memory
prioritization credentials
authority
interrelations
solution focus
send destination
find the core the Sinatra test postcards
elements purpose simple
credible
script critical
moves
human-scale direct the rider
principle find bright spots
use analogies
systems
Communications
concrete
Systems Behavorial Change black & white
feedback goals
Thinking leverage points unexpected
stories emotion
motivate the
elephant help people grow use checklists
opportunities violate schemas
outcome traps
create mystery shape the path
find the feeling create action
target triggers
shrink the change
impact from a thing will it get to those expose knowledge
know your make it social
who need it? gaps
mission appeal to idenity tweak the
environment
verb
engineer early
Impact will they use it successes
is it needed? correctly?
build a culture
measure the
right thing
fail early, fail often embrace
constraints
drift
measure it well
harvest ideas, edit
applications compelling
smart experience
recombinations jump fences framework
design
abductive thinking generative
reasoning metaphors
ask stupid
questions
make hope visible
combine familiar
and surprising
75. Developed an ecological identity
Redefined prosperity
Rediscovered democracy
Redesigned how we live
Stabilized world population
Outgrown fossil fuels
76. “The best way to
predict the future
is to invent it.”
--Alan Kay
77. So,
whether its your personal future or
the future you believe we should share,
invent it.