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🟢 [ Looking back at ] 15 years of mentoring

🟢 [ Looking back at ] 15 years of mentoring

Mentoring is now a wide-spread practice that is more or less loosely understood, but that is always of great promise. After working on this subject for about 15 years and obtaining a PhD on the very subject in 2012, I thought it would interesting to look back and reflect.

Does an AI have the right to produce art?

Does an AI have the right to produce art?

Two weeks ago, a composition won the first prize at the Colorado State Fair. This composition wasn't produced by an artist but by someone using Midjourney (a now notorious AI that generates images from text prompts). Scandal ensued. TL;DR — Someone entered an art competition with an AI-generated

Sales are a vanity metric

Sales are a vanity metric

In the context of a looming recession, most governments think again that maybe big tech should start paying a fairer amount of taxes. Prepare for talks on e-commerce and social media regulation to fire up all around (except in China, where they brutally clamp down the sector). Given the legal

The iPhone is wiggling

The iPhone is wiggling

This August, I translated and updated an article from 2013 about how innovation is a cycle of reimagination, diversification, and reduction. The core thesis is that, as innovators, we understand and expect the reimagination/diversification cycle quite well, but we nurture a massive blindspot in the reduction phase. 🔴 The Romanesco

[ Looking back at ] the rise of China

[ Looking back at ] the rise of China

The last episode of this week's Looking Back series will be about China. How can I avoid this hot topic when seemingly everyone is suddenly starting to read the writing that was on the proverbial wall for the last ten years? In 2019, I threw on the website

🟢 [ Looking back at ] how platforms and big tech scale

🟢 [ Looking back at ] how platforms and big tech scale

Pursuing my [ Looking back at ] series today by curating about digital platform scaling strategies, why network effects matter, and what we still have a hard time understanding about them (especially if you're a regular multinational in defense mode).

◼️ Innovation Micro-interview #9 - Tim RAYNER, Australia

◼️ Innovation Micro-interview #9 - Tim RAYNER, Australia

A series of micro-interviews with people we work with. Partners in crime, current or former customers, all have a unique view on innovation and the current zeitgeist. Five questions on innovation, short answers. We might agree, we might disagree. No context, no comments.