It’s not all Blah, Blah in La La

Take 100+ Hollywood Production Types put them in a big room just down the road from Burbank Airport.  The day before this, take 500 would be screenwriters with heads firmly in the clouds and whip them in to a frenzy by teaching them how to summarize their BIG ideas in...

Challenging Assumptions

 In my email today is a message from the Buckminster Fuller institute announcing the winner of their 2009 Design Science Challenge. And, as was the case in 2007, I didn’t win.  Of course I didn’t enter this year, so that may have impacted the judges...

Pitching WOO HOO to Who’s Who

Pitch is defined as “to put, set, or plant in a fixed or definite place or position” but then it also means “to throw, fling, hurl, or toss”.  (Seems a bit oxymoronic) You can have perfect pitch, and you can pitch a perfect game.  The roof...