Speed Matters A car driving beyond a threshold can harm the people in the car, and a few on the road. A startup is moving towards a destination, like a car. Runners train at speed, like a car. Thought moves at speed, like a car. Speed matters for the ambulance and the fire engine. Better to be aware when we need speed and when we need ‘slow.’ https://dash.coach
What Is Your Mission? Elon Musk wants to put humans on Mars. Mother Teresa wanted to care for those who were unwanted, unloved, uncared for by society. James Allison wanted to find a cure for cancer through the human immune system. World Food Program wants to end hunger and achieve food security in the world. Lee Kuan Yew wanted to build a developed, first world country, from scratch. My dad, a doctor, wanted to reduce the incidence of malaria in a small rural town in India. The word ‘want’ can be your wish. Or it can be your ‘mission’. A
Level1 To design a chair, we need to understand how the body behaves To design a car, we need to understand what ‘comfort’, luxury’ and ‘power’ mean to people To design a home, we need to understand far more cryptic concepts like ‘harmony’ & ‘joy’ Level2 Let’s bring in ecosystems now – designing cities At this point, the patterns and abstractions become complex Level3 Let’s move from Ecosystems to Society Solving for Malaria eradication, Climate change, Sustainability… At this point, we start asking – where do we start? Designing objects was simple. But now, with IoT and AI coming into
If I met you for the first time and asked you to introduce yourself to me, what would you say? CEO at XYZ, Entrepreneur, Musician, Makeup Artist, Teacher, Priest, Mother, Adventurer… What you are referring to is your dominant identity, and also your dominant vulnerability. Because we hang our coat of self-worth and confidence on our top one or two dominant identities, if anything were to happen to those identities (lost job, the son left home, music gig didn’t go well…), we will stumble. We are as strong or as weak as our dominant identity. It helps to – 1/
