Innovation....ideally 🪃

Short, practical drops on culture and technology. 🚀

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To the community 🙏

Happy Monday! ☀️

We know you're all groggy, plus a combination of elation (congratulations Dakota) or despair (sorry Trevor), but we do indeed hope you have a week to remember. Congratulations to all of the L.A Rams fans in the Boomerang community!

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Tweet of the Day (TOD)! 🐦

Low hanging fruit today. I love words. I always have. That includes hip-hop. Listening to someone like Nas or Kendrick Lamar is like listening to one of the world's great writers set to music you want to move to.

Last night there was an awful lot of hi-hop icons on one stage. 👆

There are levels to this game 🌍

I've asked myself a lot about how you make meaningful change. Maybe, in some way, it's futile. The way I see it you have one of two choices in life. You can try to change the world, which means you have to go work on policy or the law. Or you can change one human being at a time. The latter is as simple as living the life you would have others live. Lead by example. Be good. Be kind. We each are uniquely suited for one or the other and I know which lane I've chosen.

There is probably a third option which is as simple as changing your own behaviour. We can all improve everyday and it's a lot easier to change ourselves than to change the world. Never lie to yourself. Change if need be.

Innovation...ideally 🤝

In the change community there is a debate raging between legislation and innovation.

Some very smart friends of mine think you need to legislate change and plan it top-down. At least in the short-term. They might say something like...

Maybe that's possible in the short-term?

In the medium to long-term, I'm reminded of Naval's analogy to green energy. 👇

For Naval, you can subsidize in the short-term to inspire the change, but what you really want is innovation. You want to drive the cost and quality of green energy down such that it is the obvious choice moving forward.

I think it's possible to do the same with socio-economic change. Maybe government subsidy never goes away, but what we want in the end is innovation.

Thanks for reading. I hope you start building today. 🚀

Gratitude 🙏

I feel lucky to have you on the other end of this newsletter. If you haven't yet, join the community, and a bring a friend! Have a great week.👇

See you on the path.

- MG