Zen and the art of innovation cycle maintenance

Metacool's Diego has a tasty bit of horizontal mind-expansion: Stanford grad students changing NASCAR slicks.

What's the juice? His bullets below, thoughts for 1, 2, 3 click the link.

1. Mind your modalities

2. Seek out constraints

3. Organize for information flow

4. Learn by Doing: I'm entering broken-record mode here, but the teams that did the best in this class challenge were those that dove in and started changing tires. Instead of arguing over who would be the CEO of rickybobbytirechangers.com, and who would be leading the war for talent, these teams got down on the ground and got their hands dirty. By the wail of the air gun, thee too shall witness one's strategy emerge. And so it happened -- the best way around a NASCAR wheelwell can't be thought through in one's head, but has to be iteratively solved with hand and heart and brain. In other words, strategy that makes your hands bleed.

"Strategy that makes your hands bleed." Beautiful.