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.