Posts ByEditor, Author at The Triz Journal
Short Thort
29/01/2020 | EditorDarrell Mann
“You’re thinking too much, just let it flow.†E. Paluszak
Two Different Kinds Of Flow:
The Creative Kind:
“And it was then I began to realize for the … Read More
Generational Cycles – Judy Blume
26/01/2020 | EditorDarrell Mann
“I was goddamn lucky those books were part of the usual fare on the shelves of my public middle school library. My sudden guilt at age 33 about omitting [Judy] Blume from my influence list led me to … Read More
Investments – Sound Projector
22/01/2020 | EditorDarrell Mann
A University of Sussex research team have demonstrated the first sound projector that can track a moving individual and deliver an acoustic message as they move, to a high-profile tech and media conference in LA.
Dr Gianluca Memoli … Read More
Deming’s Fourteen Points & Innovation
19/01/2020 | EditorDarrell Mann
When there was such a thing, I was a regular attender at British Deming Association meetings and conferences. This was the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Deming’s thinking – in the UK at least – was at … Read More
Wow In Music – Thing Called Love
15/01/2020 | EditorDarrell Mann
This section of the ezine feels more and more like a Hall of Fame for under-appreciated musicians. We continue the theme this month with John Hiatt, surely one of the greatest American singer-songwriters of the last fifty years. … Read More
Biology – Wraparound Spider
12/01/2020 | EditorDarrell Mann
Time to add more species to the list of animals who have perfected the art of camouflage. Known as the wrap-around spiders, Dolophones is a genus of spider found primarily in Australia and Oceania. The genus contains 17 … Read More
Patent of the Month – Joining Dissimilar Materials
12/01/2020 | EditorDarrell Mann
Our patent of the month this month takes us to a quartet of inventors at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Washington State. US10,369,748 was awarded to the team on August 6. The invention takes us on a rare … Read More
Best of The Month – Never Split The Difference
08/01/2020 | EditorDarrell Mann
For a long while, my ‘go-to’ book when it came to negotiation theory was the same go-to book as the rest of the world, ‘Getting To Yes’ by Fisher and Ury. At the same time, I also know … Read More
Measuring Innovation ROI – #1 Big Picture
05/01/2020 | EditorDarrell Mann
“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe.” John Muir
“To demand … Read More
Not So Funny – Merging
01/01/2020 | EditorDarrell Mann
We’ve had occasion to examine the power of Inventive Principle 5, Merging, several times in the past. The trick with using this Principle is to find combinations that are non-obvious, but at the same time where the elements … Read More
Short Thort
30/11/2019 | EditorDarrell Mann
“That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.†Sir Ernest Rutherford
“The more physics you have the less engineering you need.†Sir … Read More
Investments – Nuclear Diamond Battery
27/11/2019 | EditorDarrell Mann
New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive … Read More
Generational Cycles – Childhood Sweethearts
24/11/2019 | EditorDarrell Mann
Psychologists from Sigmund Freud forward have generally agreed: our core attitudes about life are largely locked in by age five or so. Changing those attitudes requires intense effort.
Neil Howe and William Strauss took this obvious truth and … Read More
Wow In Music – Take It With Me
20/11/2019 | EditorDarrell Mann
First up, no-one – no-one – writes lyrics like Tom Waits. He has the rare knack of hitting a nerve. The song ‘Take It With Me’ from his 1999 album, Mule Variations represents something of a high-point … Read More
Depression Leverage Points
17/11/2019 | EditorDarrell Mann
From Matt Haig’s book, ‘Reasons To Stay Alive’ (Reference 1):
We have a project looking at Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) at the moment. The Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Veterans … Read More
Best of The Month – Crisis & Renewal
13/11/2019 | EditorDarrell Mann
As it becomes more and more difficult to find new business books to recommend to ezine readers, we’re forced to make more and more forays into the past to look for lost classics. That search, too, becomes less … Read More
Biology – Polysphincta Wasp
11/11/2019 | EditorDarrell Mann
Wasps. Subject of four previous ezine features. Wasps break records. Evil records. We’ve had two different parasitic wasps (Issue 148 and Issue 184) and this month we hear about a zombie-making species.
Setting off a startling chain of … Read More
Patent of the Month – Fusion Power (Almost)
10/11/2019 | EditorDarrell Mann
For the most part, the words ‘nuclear’ and ISIS don’t really belong in the same sentence these days. Fortunately, the ISIS in question here is ISIS Innovation Ltd, an offshoot of Oxford University. I’m assuming the company was … Read More
Not So Funny – Double Standards
06/11/2019 | EditorDarrell Mann
We live in a strange world. Usually, these days, a world in which we’re all forced into personalized filter bubbles that makes us less and less able to empathise with people holding views different to our own. Irony … Read More
Boeing 737 Max
03/11/2019 | EditorDarrell Mann
I worked fifteen years in the aerospace industry at the start of my career. Safety was everything, something that united the whole industry. When planes fall out of the sky it is not good news for anyone. Therefore, … Read More