How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future

Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith in Wired: 

We know what Moore’s Law is and how it works, but not many people reflect on why it exists. Yes, there are often physical barriers to innovation. But there’s no imminent physical barrier to the realization of a bit: A bit is merely presence or absence of something, say a voltage, which means it can get exponentially smaller. So with no physical limitation, Moore’s Law reflects the top rate at which humans can innovate. If we could proceed faster, we would.

There are no shortcuts at the edge of discovery and invention.

 

Everything we have to do

From Simon Sinek's Notes to Inspire newsletter:

If we think of everything we have to do, we feel overwhelmed. If we do the one thing we have to do, we make progress. 

Better By Design: Keith Yamashita On CEOs and Designers

Previously I shared Keith Yamashita's take on greatness and creativity. In this new presentation, part of Better By Design, Yamashita talks about working for Steve Jobs (he wanted a culture that didn't tolerate defects,) consulting to Mark Zuckerberg (who told Yamashita "why should I use someone else's best practices to grow my company") and what great CEOs, leaders and designers have in common.

 

IBM On Brand

“_____ on Brand” is a series of short films created by VSA to capture the current thinking behind leadership brands—specifically, their origins and intent, audiences and ingredients, and business or societal impact.

In this two-minute tour, the roots of the IBM brand are traced to the company’s management of its character. Narrated by Jon Iwata, IBM Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications, 

It's fascinating to see how a company with so much history, and so much history of change, has managed to maintain branding consistency over time. It goes to show how in addition to the visual identity, consistent behavior is really important to a brand and it's usually the first thing to go in the pursuit of rebranding. 

Urgent, Please Read ASAP

Yes, we've heard it said that it's the important, not the urgent, that deserves attention. But it understates just how much we've been manipulated by those that would make their important into our urgent.

Seth Godin in his blog. It is amazing to think how many times our communications are completely framed and defined by other people's definitions of urgent, important and reasonable.