InnerVentures

  • In fine form

    When busy work takes over, you can lose touch. Good for flow and hyper productivity but there are downsides. Check in on yourself. Writing helps – like I’m doing here. Attitude is key; fight for your passion but don’t deceive yourself. Have a fine day! I’ve experienced equal parts of this state recently. This post…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The perils of overdoing and an ode to being

    This is also an ode to human ingenuity, sense making, mindfulness and critical thinking. Especially at this time of year and point in time. This time of year being post festive season and holidays. When you have hopefully de-stressed from the past year’s hard slog and have a clear mind and before you get sucked…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Information is not truth

    AI will add to the info overwhelming us. Resisting the delusion that info equals truth, especially when it reinforces our biases, will get harder. Truth takes time, energy, money and individuals, nations and enterprise benefit when we invest in it. I say this after watching MSNBC’s Ari Melber interview Yuval Noah Harari on his new…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Innovate or die

    In times of change, it’s the innovators that will inherit the earth, not the learners as Eric Hoffer stated. For in my view, learning is part of innovation. To innovate, you have to learn by doing, in the grand experiment called life. Whether individual or company, the same laws apply. I created a DanelDoodle to…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The art of innovation

    The art of innovation is about thinking new things and doing new things. And it’s for individuals or companies. Don’t worry about being consistent and perfect, that’s for the dead. Innovators are dynamic and imperfect, always thinking and trying new things, experimenting. This is a new format I’m trying – a quick thought rocket with…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Seeds of potentiality and growth mindset then lived experience

    “Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.” This is a quote from W.H. Murray, penned during or after a Scottish Himalayan expedition he was on and it’s a fitting…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • A fire in my head

    I’ve been writing a lot about AI recently. I work with the technology every day and I’m doing research for a new trend report on the subject. I’m drowning in AI. This post is about writing, creativity, ideas and the importance of this faced with an onslaught of AI. I often write to sense make.…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Reflections in the transitional void

    This last post for the year comes at a great time for reflection, on what passed in the year before and what is to come in the year ahead. The welcome lull that the festive season affords is one of my favourite times not just because I get dedicated time to spend with family. I…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Is Intention running the software in your head

    This is an alternative take on what I have written about before, Choose carefully how you spend your time. In that piece I riffed on Annie Dillard’s famous quote: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” By that is ultimately meant, you become what you spend your time doing and…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Techno optimist with positive impact – new generational sensemaking

    Two things/events lead me here, to this thinking and sense making. One is Marc Andreesen’s latest thinking, published on the 16th of October in his Techno-Optimist Manifesto. The other is the crisis unfolding in the middle East. Here are my thoughts, not so much on the thinking or the events themselves but our reaction to…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The art of intuiting your way to higher ground – a doodle of a tale

    For this to work you need to look inside and I don’t mean pointless navel gazing. I mean that you should look to your intuition, your inner light, voice and compass. And whereas with InnerVentures I often typically refer to adventures inside your mind (or organisation), in this case I want for you to leave…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Improbable possibilities and the joy of existence – a mindhack

    Need some perspective or inspiration? Can’t see the wood for the trees? Life grinding you down with its minutiae and machinations? Zoom out a second – to the solar system, our galaxy, the universe. Take your pick but any will do. The vastness of space can have a calming and reassuring effect. It’s when you…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • When life and the Bots beat down – Art

    We are going through trying times – economically, politically, environmentally, etc. While these times should pass, at least in some areas, the pace of technological change likely wont. If anything, it will speed up. A case in point, recent announcements in AI which I am writing about. As much as I am a technophile, it…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Why do we work if not for meaning

    This is a gloss on an Annie Dillard piece when she was writing about writing. I read her classic book called The Writing Life not too long ago and this excerpt stuck with me. I thought it could easily apply to many things but especially work. If you want to find the original piece, go…

    Stephen Danelutti