Last week I kept IOL brief because I was building.

I am building. Every day. Experimenting. Running things, seeing what they surface, learning from what they miss. Most of it stays inside the Lab. This week, I’m letting some of it out.

What I’m sharing today isn’t a commercial product. It’s one of my daily experiments. Lightweight, live, and instructive whether it works or not. In this case, it’s The Insider’s Guide to Innovation at Microsoft made interactive. Readers of the book will recognize what I’m doing — developing in the open, a practice shared in the Visual Studio Code story. What gets seen gets tested. What gets tested gets sharper.

Try it: Innovation Coach is live at www.regenerouslabs.com/innovationcoach

Give it a real problem. Then give the same problem to your favorite LLM. See what each one sees — and what each misses.

Tell me what you find!

Connections to The Insider’s Guide to Innovation at Microsoft

* Developing in the Open — VS Code’s transparent GitHub development as a learning accelerator; what gets seen gets tested

* The 77 Innovation Frameworks — The book’s full framework library serves as the Innovation Coach’s action library

* Language as Strategic Tool — “Expert perception” as new vocabulary that changes what we can see and scale

* B2Me Journey — The Innovation Coach diagnoses cognitive mode first, consistent with the book’s emotional-before-cognitive principle

Sources

¹ Gary Klein, Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions (MIT Press, 1998). Klein’s Recognition-Primed Decision model, developed from fieldwork with firefighters and military commanders, showed that experienced decision-makers recognize situations as familiar types and simulate one response forward rather than comparing options. gary-klein.com/rpd

² Angus Fletcher, Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence (Columbia University Press, 2023). Fletcher argues that narrative cognition — causal speculation rather than correlational reasoning — is a distinct mode of intelligence that precedes and shapes logical analysis. cup.columbia.edu

Also read: A. Mark Williams et al., “Expertise and the Interaction between Different Perceptual-Cognitive Skills: Implications for Testing and Training,” Frontiers in Psychology 7 (2016). Research on perceptual-cognitive expertise demonstrates that experts process environmental information through structured perceptual frameworks that shape anticipation and decision-making before conscious analysis begins. frontiersin.org

A note on how this piece was made: This piece was created with the help of AI — specifically Claude, Perplexity, and a team of expert personas built by Regenerous Labs. Direction, judgment, and final decisions by me. Say it ugly, build it better. Onward!

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