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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Innovation

Bookmarks

  1. The Oxymoron of "Data-Driven Innovation"

    Chelsea Troy argues that 'data-driven innovation' is internally contradictory — data can only confirm what you already know to measure, and genuine innovation requires bets on things you can't yet measure. A sharp critique of how tech teams use data to avoid hard decisions.

  2. Artemis pCell Wireless Technology

    Artemis Networks' pCell technology — a claimed breakthrough in wireless that inverts the cell tower model by treating interference as signal, theoretically delivering full bandwidth to every user simultaneously. A technically audacious claim that generated significant attention in 2014.

  3. From Homebrew Computers to Biohacking: Innovators of Two Generations

    Techonomy article drawing parallels between the 1975 Homebrew Computer Club and 2013's biohackers — arguing that community-lab biology is following the same trajectory as garage computing, with similar democratization dynamics.

  4. 3D Printer Produces Device to Help Baby Breathe

    University of Michigan doctors saved an infant's life in 2013 by 3D printing a biodegradable splint to hold his collapsing trachea open. One of the first surgical applications of personalized 3D-printed implants, and a milestone in custom medical device fabrication.

  5. How Serial Innovators Find the Best Problems to Solve

    Fast Company on how serial innovators identify which problems to work on — drawing on research by Claudio Feser and others showing that the problem selection step is where great innovations diverge from incremental ones.

  6. Steve Jobs Was Right to 'Steal,' and Beer Is Inspiring

    PandoDaily defending Jobs' famous 'good artists copy, great artists steal' philosophy — arguing that creative theft (synthesis and transformation, not copying) is a feature of great design and product thinking. The beer angle was about how informal settings unlock creative thinking.

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