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THE BOOK IS A PROCESS7/29/2022 I had just released my first commercial book. Yes, it's a big achievement. It's a cause for celebration. Some call me lucky. Others tell me, "You had come a long way." Some said, that I should start paying tribute to the people who helped me along the way. They're very happy for me. I'm pleased that they're happy for me. But this book, like any other things in life, is part of a process. The book is a product of that long process. For me, it took me two decades of sharpening that process- the wisdom, discipline, lots of lessons learned, and eventual putting it down to bring more value out there for others to partake. Like any other process, it was a product of other processes that came with, my consulting business founded in 2013 but operational in 2014. The business grew in 2015 and cocooned to accommodate my personal vicissitudes. Back in 2018 soft launch and massive work thereafter to grow where I am now. It followed by creating value and ensuring quality every step of the way. I means late nights work, weekend work when my baby was with the in-laws, meeting potential clients, lots of networking, pro-bono work, writing while cooking, cleaning, and chasing butterflies, and enjoying the ride. I also learned magnificently. Life is about failing well and coming back up to straighten one's paths. To all of you creators, you know what I'm talking about. Cheers for this first book, cheers to many more, beautiful and valuable creations.
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WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA? PART211/9/2021 To continue on the "big idea" discussion.... Big ideas generated from design schools and labs are great. They're ideas. Everything we have right now, these tangibles were products of someone's imagination. Some are dreamers, some are designers, some are investors of dreams, some are implementors. Some are borrowers, refiners, and even auditors of dreams and ideas. From conceiving to implementing, many processes and actors will be needed. Which one are you? What position will you take in this continuum? Where is your default position?
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RELATIONSHIPS ARE EVERYTHING2/3/2021 When you think about it, really, relationships are everything.
Everything and everyone is interrelated and interconnected. The survival of one is dependent on the survival of the system to which that organism belongs and vice-versa. When complex issues are taken together systemically, new insights appear, normally, unseen and oblivious to the decision-maker. It sounds like a cliché, but what goes around, comes around. In reality, what comes around, goes around faster than ever before. We know that serendipity is not that unpredictable. There's no such thing as chance encounters. Interconnections and interlinkages shouldn't just be in our social relations. In many instances, the best innovation starts within the interstices of divergent and contrasting approaches and disciplines. Take the case of a watch that does tell a time but also act as monitor for abnormal heart conditions. These permutations are bridging what we conceptually think as 'irrational and weird' combinations. Ideas are everywhere. Systems collide and coalesce, depending on forces that impinged on or that works within. As I write this, many systems are failing us, and new systems have yet to be imagined and invented. Where will you be in the post-pandemic world- what systems are you trying to resuscitate or have you thought of leaving the old one for a better alternative? |