Guest Thinkers — February 22, 2011

Futurelab: the future of strategy, marketing, and innovation

What The Huffington Post is to politics, the Marketing & Strategy Innovation blog from Futurelab is to the world of innovation. A group of 25-30 contributors, led by Stefan Kolle of Futurelab, weigh in daily with their observations from the world of strategy and innovation. There’s a great mix of content on the site — including thought-provoking images and ideas from Lynette Webb, ruminations about the future from C. Sven Johnson, and discussion of important innovation trends from Ilya Vedrashko.

Anyway, I’m excited to join this group of high-profile contributors — look for me on the author sidebar, between Dick Stroud (a visiting lecturer at London Business School and the managing director of a consulting firm targeting the 50-plus market) and Guy Kawasaki (legendary Apple evangelist and venture capitalist).

[image: futurelab]

a computer generated image of a human brain.

Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

a collage of photos of a man with a hat and a book.

High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

a group of five matches on a pink background.

The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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