I recently had the pleasure of chatting about simplicity, design, business, technology and life with Jason Fried and Matt Linderman of 37Signals, and Professor John Maeda of the MIT Media Lab.
Here's the transcript of our chat.
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Principles for Innovating
- 1: Experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world
- 2: See and hear with the mind of a child
- 3: Always ask: "How do we want people to feel after they experience this?"
- 4: Prototype as if you are right. Listen as if you are wrong.
- 5: Anything can be prototyped. You can prototype with anything.
- 6: Live life at the intersection
- 7: Develop a taste for the many flavors of innovation
- 8: Most new ideas aren't
- 9: Killing good ideas is a good idea
- 10: Baby steps often lead to big leaps
- 11: Everyone needs time to innovate
- 12: Instead of managing, try cultivating
- 13: Do everything right, and you'll still fail
- 14: Failure sucks, but instructs
- 15: Celebrate errors of commission. Stamp out errors of omission.
- 16: Grok the gestalt of teams
- 17. It's not the years, it's the mileage
- 18: Learn to orbit the hairball
- 19: Have a point of view
- 20: Be remarkable
