Stephen Hawking has just recently passed away, and we are reminded of his quote: “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet…Be curious” I often wonder whether he nicked that idea from the “Father of Roman poetry Quintus Ennius: “No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars” With all due respect, I’d have to challenge these gentlemen. As much as I find it important to #lookup (I have an entire series of Instagram photos tagged with this), being in a pe

A while back the lovely Wes Fryer (we’ve never met, except on Twitter, but I’m the type that definitely counts that as “real life”) asked me to share my thoughts about maintaining the spark for innovation. He’s crowdsourcing a keynote, which is something I’ve done in the past and loved it (so much so that I plan to do it again) I like to organize any “tips” I give into short collections of alliterated words – that, and rhyming or assonance, just seems to work for me both as a