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Innovation today rarely lives in a single discipline. The breakthrough product, the elegant solution, the thing that finally works—more often than not, it sits at the intersection of mechanical systems, electronics, a...

Everyone Wants Innovation. Few Companies Staff for It.

We recently came across a piece in Big Think that stopped us in our tracks. Writer Eric Markowitz visited Kaikado, a tea caddy workshop in Kyoto that has been in operation since 1875. When Markowitz asked a young appr...

In our last two blogs, we explored what insight is—that unmistakable rush of sudden clarity, positive emotion, and effortless certainty—and what insight does to us, from sharpening our memory to expanding our appetite...

The Hidden Ripple Effects of Insight: How to Harness Your “Aha!” Moments for Innovation

The “Aha!” Moment: What Exactly Is Insight?

What separates innovators from other people? What is it that allows them to think outside the box and come up with new, innovative solutions?

Innovation is often depicted as a lightning bolt moment, a sudden flash of genius that solves a complex problem. In reality, bringing an innovation to life is a grueling slog up a treacherous mountain, and often, the ...

There’s a big mystery in biology called Peto’s paradox (named after statistician and epidemiologist Richard Peto, who first observed the oddity in 1977).

This year the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences went to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt, for their explanation of “how innovation provides the impe­tus for further progress.”

On Thanksgiving, Donna and I typically do four turkeys, all deep-fried. We used to do one regular, oven-cooked turkey to get dressing, but who needs dressing when you can have more deep-fried turkey instead? The only ...

This year’s Nobel Prizes have been announced, and the one that caught our eye is not the prize in chemistry or physics or even medicine, but economics.