thinkfuture: technology, philosophy and the future

or the past two decades, Charlene Li has been helping people see the future. She’s an expert on digital transformation, leadership, customer experience, and the future of work. She’s the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller, Open Leadership, and co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Groundswell. Her latest book is the bestseller The Disruption Mindset. She currently serves as the Chief Research Officer at PA Consulting, an end-to-end innovation consultancy. Named one of the most creative people in business by Fast Company, Charlene is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and lives in San Francisco.  Connect with Charlene on Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/charleneli. ---- http://ideateandexecute.com

As the internet progressed from a wild west model to a more controlled model, we needed to try to capture more and more attention. Unfortunately, this ended up messing us up, big time.   Part 2 of 4  --- http://ideateandexecute.com

There has been story after story of how AI bots are really terrible, from Tay to Amazon Recruiting, learning from the way humans work just isn't working. How do we create better AI models? --- http://ideateandexecute.com

We now live in a world with an AI and big data-driven highly curated feed of information fired at us 24/7. It's almost like the only way we can be creative and innovative is to step away from the feed and spend time in the natural world (instead of the virtual world on our devices).

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Have we now evolved away from Homo Sapiens (Thinking Man) to Homo Nexus (Connected Man)? Have we entered an age where we cannot make decisions on our own and need to leverage the collective at all times? --- https://ideateandexecute.com

There is no generic "meaning of life" - everyone has their own meaning of life - and we need to appeal to people's personal meaning. I don't think most people find meaning in work - they find meaning in other ways.  --- https://ideateandexecute.com

Most people have a job that makes money, and a side hustle that is something they like to do - how do to make people understand the value of the stuff you do in your side hustle? How can we get people to pay for the value created through your side hustle? --- https://ideateandexecute.com

Work and life are all experiments in the lab of life.  --- https://ideateandexecute.com

No matter how much data we capture on people, we still can't figure them out. This is how complicated we are. Plus, we don't really know what we want and we constantly want to change ourselves.

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Some of the most amazing, forward-thinking product innovations are people just solving their own problems. From Elon Musk's Boring Co to Smores to PopSockets, solve your own problem and build a business around it. --- https://ideateandexecute.com