A friend Christine Comaford posted an article titled "Have You Shifted?" which deals with shifts in values as one progresses through life. In her article she refers to Wayne Dyer's work called "The Shift", which is what people go through when they see life in a...

I wish the Harvard Business Review (HBR) had published its article "Early Prototypes Can Hurt a Team's Creativity" one year earlier! I have a financial interest in a startup which may be suffering for having prototyped too soon. I did have the nerve to criticize this with my...

Many (or most) of my mechanical engineering learning experiences at MIT, bored me to tears. One exception was an undergraduate course called "Creativity," which possibly influenced my entrepreneurial future.

The experience was clearly designed to push our class beyond the framework of standard thinking, and it likely influenced my...

What might have once been called 'intellectual networking' seems to have been displaced by today's 'social networking.' During my years living on our planet, ideas often led to deep thinking, discussions, and of course, arguments. I would often analyze these later, attempting to reach useful conclusions. But these days, a...