Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

We have to get better at believing the impossible.

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.