Articles in category 'Thinking'

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , February 2, 2009

Do you want to have good, high-quality ideas? In this age of knowledge, having good ideas can separate you from others and put you ahead of the pack.
But how can we get high-quality ideas? As it turns out, a great way to get high-quality ideas is to have a lot of ideas. The Medici Effect [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , December 29, 2008

Do you want to have creative ideas? The Medici Effect (a book I review a few months ago) has an important advice to follow: live in the Intersection. As the book says:
When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary new ideas.
There [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , September 1, 2008

Since I’m in the business of creating ideas (mainly for this blog), I’m always interested in books about idea creation. Recently I found a book on this topic entitled The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation by Frans Johansson.
Medici Effect is the name given by the author for [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , August 22, 2008

Have you ever ridden an emotional roller coaster? When things go right, you are happy and cheerful. But when things go wrong, you feel terrible and frustrated. An emotional roller coaster takes you either high or low.
If you ever experience it, you know how bad it is. You’re standing on an unstable [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , July 18, 2008

I recently watched Nathan Myhrvold’s video at TED and it’s amazing. I want to talk about the video and what I learn from it in a moment, but let me introduce Nathan Myhrvold first. He is the man who is featured in The New Yorker’s article In The Air (I wrote [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , May 31, 2008

Our brain is a miracle. That’s what I thought when I watched this video (I embed the video below). In the video (which was suggested to me by Avani from Food for Mind), brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor described her experience when she was hit by stroke. Since she was already a brain scientist at [...]