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On February 26th 2009 and October 10 2008, I blogged about the bits of fate that brought me out to California that involved IDEO and Tom Kelley's book, " The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm ". Then I mentioned how I found out about Tom Kelley speaking, and had the opportunity to meet him. And how I ran into David Kelley, and had the opportunity to meet him. Yesterday I had lunch with an IDEO employee whom I met through a mutual friend. I met her in Palo Alto and we decided to eat at a local Thai restaurant. The host shows us to our seats, a very small two person booth, right next to one other small two person booth, that is nicely tucked away in a corner of the restaurant. After 10 minutes of sitting down and talking about IDEO and what had brought me out to California...the host seats two people in the booth right next to us. I moved my backpack for the person who would be sharing a bench with me. To my... di...

I attended the Tom Kelley talk at Stanford, and took some notes during his lecture. Here are the valuable invaluables :-). "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain and artist once we grow up" What happened to all the artists? It's OK to be an artist! 1. Think like a traveler The real act of discovery consists not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes - Marcel Proust 2. Treat life as an experiment "I haven't failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that do not work." 3. Nurture an "Attitude of Wisdom " "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that ain't so." - Mark Twain 4. Use your whole brain...and your "tortoise mind" Take time to daydream. FIND YOUR OWN MUSE 5. Follow your passions DO WHAT YOU LOVE , you'll be better at it. Find the happy medium between: Good at, Born to do, Pay you to do Keep a journal of when you feel at ...

So, Myself and a couple of other people went to Tom Kelley's talk (yay!), and afterwards they presented an object to be used in a 3 minute or less video. The object presented was a water bottled, and the goals was to create as much value out of it as possible. Our submission can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyPvck5O1Hc I would recommend watching it in high quality by clicking the link and clicking "watch in high quality" It was a pretty fun project, and I probably though up at least 15 different viable concepts for it. We ended up doing a concept I though of while brushing my teeth on Thursday night and putting my 'tortoise brain' to work. I think the video turned out pretty well, with working on all of these 'big projects' it was nice to actually complete something, as I work the best under pressure with a deadline! If the movie is well received I'm looking into turning it into a children's book with a DVD. That way kids can ...