Innovating Out Loud

Too Dumb to Know I Can't - Replace "I'm not creative" with this and see what shifts Read by my JoAnn-AI assistant created with ElevenLabs. This week’s writing practice started with a question: What do I want to understand more deeply right now? The answer was another question—one I get asked often: How do you do what you do? For years, my shorthand was a self-deprecating joke: “I’m too dumb to kno...

Happy New Year, Community! This is a new weekly practice I’m trying to build—a companion to our live monthly Innovating Out Loud recording. Every Sunday, I’ll share research and sense-making in progress. Faster synthesis. Five iterations instead of fifty. Stopping before it’s perfect, once I feel there’s value worth sharing. Not treating it as precious—putting it on the table so we can pretty it u...

Why Your AI Adoption Is Probably Stalled—And What Actually Works We just wrapped our second Innovating Out Loud session, and it was packed with takeaways and resources for everyone. Dean Carignan—my co-author on The Insider’s Guide to Innovation at Microsoft and someone leading AI transformation with a large team inside Microsoft—joined Taryn and me to talk about what’s actually happening on the g...