What Made These Amazing Companies So Disruptive? They All Built Platforms
Consider the companies: Google, Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, and eBay—is that they aren’t focused on selling products, they are building platforms. Also: Walmart, Microsoft, Nike, John Deere, and GE.
Here is a list of books, at least have helped me in creativity, leadership and marketing:
Here is a full list including ones from my current research project.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t…. You are right.” — Henry Ford
All great things begin with a vision…. a dream — Estée Lauder
“When I thought I couldn’t go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck.” — Estée Lauder
“Inventors must be poets so that they may have imagination.” — Thomas Edison
Discoveries are Rare Because Expectations Obscure our Vision: (Kuhn)
The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics — Richard Feynman
‘If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. — Albert Einstein
Programming is all about logic and mathematics. Marketing is all about ‘feelings’, it just has to feel right to sell. So use ‘logic’ to design and build a product that ‘feels right’ so it will sell. Marketing and branding is all about connecting to users emotions. In branding how it is worded and how it looks is BIG.
Beauty helps us in creativity
Here is two great articles on working with data:
Fitting Data to Nonlinear Models
Wavelet Analysis of Physiologic Signals – MatLab
A brain-computer interface with vibrotactile biofeedback
Just invent something. There are problems out there, so research one. Try this, try that and make it work. Keep improving it. Don’t quit or give up. Remember Thomas Edison had many many attempts at the light bulb, getting the right wire and right voltage at the right temperature. So keep trying and don’t give up. When up again a wall pray and seek guidance from above. Sometimes working on multiple areas at once can help give the inventors mind a break, so you can get the next break through.
Beauty helps us in creativity
There is a big connection between Music and creativity. Music activates many areas of the brain bringing together visual, motor, hearing and emotions. Music even lists us up to God, so it has a spiritual aspect also.
Albert Einstein — ‘If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” —Albert Einstein, See more great quotes at: paulsohn.org
Creativity is intelligence having fun! – Albert Einstein But hard work and persistence is needed to bring it to pass. Having an idea is great, but turning the idea into something real people can use (and want to use) is difficult. One needs to get organized and make progress almost every day to succeed.
Find that one fun thing and pursue it until everyone knows you have succeeded.
Great article on an internal language the human brain seems to use…How the brain builds new thoughts