Recently, I Made An Impromptu Visit To Harvard to visit my old friend and long-term collaborator, Sanford Kwinter. He invited me to present to his class at the GSD, and opened it up to the broader Harvard community. We talked about the work that I am focused on these days, launching a new educational project committed to providing the tools of innovation and design thinking to the broadest, most inclusive audience possible. Our discussion was animated and exciting—because it was troublesome and even alarming to some of the students. One brave student was willing to complain out loud: "I'm not comfortable with your 'corporatist' language and your obsession with getting to scale. Is it really necessary?" My response was brutal: "I don't care about your problems, because they are not real problems.
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