I gave a talk in April 2020 on Pyjama Talks, a talk series hosted during the early surge of the pandemic by Stanford’s Knight-Hennessy Scholars program. They invited experts from around the globe to give 8-minute nuggets of information, inspiration, and delight from the comfort of their home. Wearing pyjamas encouraged!

For now, the video is still up on facebook - have a watch!

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I’d prepared a couple “slides” to share, as I’d understood it to be a short presentation followed by Q & A- the format shifted a bit to more of an interview, and so the slides periodically pop up throughout, which worked out quite well in the end.

Here the full slate of slides I’d prepared: Giving a bit of my definition of scale, how to break problems down into chunks, and the broad strokes approach to creative problem solving that applies at all scales. The tricky part of course comes in applying it in real life, but we only had a couple minutes - so much more to dig into this topic, for sure.

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Powers of Ten

an inspirational video by Ray & Charles Eames when they worked with IBM in 1977.

It is one of the most… engaging ways to highlight the interconnectedness of it all. That scale relates very strongly to systems / ecosystems.

And here a fun shot of my soft opener Q, answering “what is home”? (My answer that day: the feeling of walking out on a street in Berlin, Germany, and it just feeling familiar. The scents, navigating around)

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