Fun conversation (in Norwegian) with Lucas Weldeghebriel about why both innovative companies and founders need a big pool of bad ideas, that will never be implemented:

The notion Ideas are cheap, execution is everything, is a self fulfilling prophecy

Another similarity between innovation and parenthood: The number of times every day I ask: “Why.. But why?!!” 😝

På torsdag arrangere vi i Smidig (tidl. Smidigkonferansen) jubileumsfest! The Other Alistair kommer, kommer du? Ikke nok med det. Så har vi også: Johannes Brodwall Henning Spjelkavik Christin Gorman Karianne Berg Anders Haugeto Audun F Strand Truls Jørgensen Meld deg på meetup.com/smidig/events/…

1. People create incentive systems all the time, often without realizing it.

Contemporary Philosophy

It's better to have malfunctioning software, than a malfunctioning team.

The real measure of how much an organisation is learning, isn't in what the organisation is learning. It's in how the organisation is adapting. How we as individuals improve our thinking, and how the wider system changes as a result of what we learn every day.

Hurts to think about: Where we had been, if we had been able to see the negative correlation between efficiency and innovation as clearly as we see the correlation between expenses and income

“Follow the money” makes sense in business development, but not in innovation. Here, a better term would be “follow the value creation”. Do that and maybe, just maybe, you find value but no money. Now *that* is an opportunity to innovate. If you succeed? Money will follow you.

The first network effect founders need to build: Make people around them believe they’re able to pull it off

“Problems aren’t solved, they are outgrown”—I always saw this from the “solution” side, that I grow as a person and what was difficult or painful becomes easy. It also applies to the problem side. Something else gets bigger & now what was a pressing problem is trivial.

Strong beliefs are antifragile: The more resistance they get, the stronger they get. I try to keep it in mind when confronted with beliefs far away from my own. Some times the best defense is neither attack nor defence. Instead, it’s to turn a discussion into a conversation.

Innovation doesn't happen because we reach our objectives. It happens because we *want* it to happen. Really, really bad.

Once stupid ideas we now see as inevitable: - Open source software - Max 140 characters - Rockets that land Now stupid idea, in the future seen as inevitable: - Innovators won’t have to quit their job,take tons of personal risk & sacrifice everything in their lives to succeed

Waterfall in the #startup world: 1. Investment fund defines a mandate 2. Entrepreneurs build startups to comply with that mandate (get funded or die) 3. Fund invests 4. Startups execute 5. 7-10 years later: Everyone hopes for returns C'mon people. There are better ways.

Thought experiment: What if disruptive innovation is the best path to solve our #sustainability problems? haugeto.substack.com/p/rethinking-i…

Let’s be clear: To rationalize something and to be rational are not the same thing. (In fact, they’re orthogonal)

Excited to be working together with Magnus Carlsen on this! Iterate Norway Chess

Scaling up? That's super, but remember this: Great execution is still about problem solving (and beware of silos sneaking up on you): lnkd.in/dH4k-H_S