Sublime

‘Festival of Ideas’

At Stanford, we believe anything can be prototyped, from a physical object to public policy.

Put a lot of ideas out there and see which ones are praised and adopted by your target audience.

The world will be a richer, more colorful place when more people are freed up to learn, create, and build novel things that only they can. This might be technology’s greatest gift to humanity.  By making the competition to be better at someone else’s game practically futile, it frees us up to play different games. 

Whatever work we do to engage people in making change can be deepened and expanded if it has play at its heart.

They say: “Think big! Have a compelling vision!” I say: Think small. Do something super cool by the end of the day! I write about “excellence.” Most see excellence as some grand aspiration. Wrong. Dead wrong. My two cents: Excellence is the next five minutes or nothing at all. It’s the quality of your next five-minute conversation. It’s the quality

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The joy and the delight of this is to step forward a bit, to be a little bit daring and a little bit courageous, saying, “Well, what if? What if we did that?” We have just played with that idea of what could be possible.