Make that walkabout a priority - Your imagination will thank you
Made famous in the United States by famed Australian philosopher Crocodile Dundee, a walkabout is a journey through the wilderness of one's choosing to satisfy an itch, a desire to be elsewhere, the craving for the open road, or to engage the space over the horizon.
A walkabout can be a simple bike ride to your local art museum or possibly a more adventurous cross-continental journey to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. A walkabout can be joining the local historical society or taking a gap year to teach economics in Canada.
Regardless of the distance traveled or the actions taken, your imagination will thank you for the change of scenery.
The brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings.
Same morning routine. Same office commute. Same weekly meetings. Same quarterly reports. Same yearly industry conference.
Sameness overload.
This sameness can suppress your ability to generate new ideas.
Without generating new ideas, you become a manager and not a leader.
Changing up the pace, the people, and poetry can have profound results from developing new skills and insights and your ability to generate new ideas.
You are a mashup of what you let into your life - friends, meals, music, books, art, lectures, movies, experiences, etc.
Every new idea is a mashup of one or more previous ideas, without developing new ideas, the mashup process stalls.
So make time for that walkabout.
Big or small, your imagination will thank you.
-Marc
WHAT BRIGADOON IS WATCHING THIS WEEKEND
‘Welcome to the mesh, brother’: Guerrilla wi-fi comes to New York: NYC Mesh, a band of a few dozen tech volunteers, takes on Verizon and the big “incumbent providers,” with the promise of inexpensive community internet.
NYT
EU plans to plant three billion trees under forestry strategy: The bloc is proposing to use the Common Agricultural Policy to set up payment schemes for the owners of woodland, while boosting the monitoring of existing forest, which makes up around two-fifths of the continent. The European Commission, the EU’s regulator, is also planning to plant 3 billion trees in an effort to absorb more CO2 from the atmosphere.
Bloomberg
Copenhagenize your city: The case for urban cycling in 12 graphs: Danish-Canadian urban designer Mikael Colville-Andersen busts some common myths and shows how the bicycle has the potential to transform cities around the world.
Guardian
Former Sony, Toyota engineers accelerate Japan aerospace startups: Experience with jets and robots advances 'flying cars' and moon exploration.
Nikkei
Moderna’s next act is using mRNA vs. flu, zika, HIV, and cancer: The biotech has reached a $100 billion market cap. But after COVID, the challenges get even bigger.
Bloomberg
"Screens used to be for the elite. Now avoiding them is a status symbol. Anticipated spending on experiences such as leisure travel and dining is outpacing spending on goods... a direct response to the proliferation of screens." -- Nellie Bowles - technology reporter for The New York Times.
The novel material that’s shrinking phone chargers, powering up electric cars, and making 5G possible: Gallium, once an industrial-waste product, is transforming our increasingly electrified world.
Christopher Mims - WSJ
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