Ideas are easy. Turning them into something useful is harder. The Innovation Flywheel is a model for moving ideas through research, analysis, and real-world experimentation—creating open-source projects, businesses, knowledge, and resources that help power the next cycle.
Good ideas don’t have to be locked behind intellectual property to create value. The Institute for the Painfully Obvious starts with a different default: keep ideas open and let businesses compete on execution.
Artificial intelligence is changing more than individual jobs. By reducing the hidden costs of coordination, documentation, and institutional memory, AI makes a new kind of multidisciplinary think tank practical for the first time.
AI has dramatically expanded what individuals can create, but our institutions still assume innovation only happens inside corporations and universities. The Institute for the Painfully Obvious proposes a new model for discovering, developing, and funding ideas that might otherwise never leave the notebook.
What if every home and business became a mini power plant? A distributed energy network could power AI growth while strengthening the electrical grid.
Why underground data centers beat space-based infrastructure on cost, cooling, security, and energy—built for the future of AI and cloud.
AI isn’t replacing workers—it’s replacing business models. Here’s how small teams are using AI to outcompete legacy organizations.
AI infrastructure is aging faster than ever. Explore how surplus GPUs and retired AI hardware could create a billion-dollar secondary market powered by logistics platforms and distributed sellers.
Still forcing password changes? NIST overturned that guidance in 2017. Here’s why SP 800-63-2 must be retired—and what modern policy looks like.
A privacy-preserving proposal for age verification using Nostr—protecting children without sacrificing anonymity or civil liberties.