How to Improve Your First Principles Thinking Skills
First principles thinking is the most talked-about skill in innovation. It's also the most misunderstood. Here's what it actually looks like.
I'm Too Good at Keeping Busy. So Are You.
A confession about deep work, deferred priorities, and the three tripwires I built when I stopped trusting myself.
How to Overcome Expert Bias
Three checks that keep you in control of your own thinking when experts are in the room.
How to Overcome Confirmation Bias
Stop Cognitive Bias from Ruining Your Decisions
What I Saw McKinsey Get Wrong at HP And Couldn’t Stop
Mindjacking doesn’t always come from outside. Sometimes you watch it happen in real time and still can’t stop it.
Why Most Organizations Aren't Funding Innovation
Without a clear definition, innovation investment is meaningless.
The AI Hardware Bet
Model quality is a commodity. Apple, OpenAI, and HP are betting the next AI war will be won on devices, not models.
R&D Spending Is the Most Misleading Number in Business
The government collects the real R&D split from every public company. It's locked away by federal law. Here's how to estimate it anyway.
Ghost Research: The Hidden Risk Inside Every R&D Organization
The scientific record gets corrected. The decisions built on it don't.
Innovation Laundering
Big Tech is calling it AI innovation. The filings tell a different story.
