Social Innovation

It's valuable, rewarding, and selfless to do social innovation. Earlier this year, I participated in a social innovation workshop for an organization called Design for America (DFA). This organization teaches students several tools that can be used to improve a community and encourages them to build solutions.

People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it

If what I've told you about doing things for a compelling reason hasn't hit home, watch this video. "People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it."

It's humbling to say this, but that video is possibly the most important thing I've posted here. Hopefully we all let "why" drive our lives. More than "success," what you do and how you do it become indicative of something. What is success if not doing something significant on your lifetime?

Innovating for yourself!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! A non-business post for the holiday!

Lets talk about an exciting subject, innovating on your life for your own happiness. Unless you are OCD or extremely neurotic, odds are that a little bit of change is good for you.

Cool Self-Driving car concept.

Click on this very interesting link about a self-driving Prius concept. It will drive itself to and from the garage and feature other cool innovations only achievable with self-driving car. Share cool things you envision for a future where everyone has a car like this.

Is criticizing Apple heresy? I think not.

As you all know, the iPhone 4s was just an incremental improvement on the iPhone 4. Was Apple right in doing this and can they replicate this success forever?  Yes and no.

Apple has relied on a very successful formula. They've done it really well and washed, rinsed, and repeated it several times. Read past the jump for more details.