Jul 7, 2020

Thinking Askew - The Restart and Unconferences Edition

By Alf Rehn • Issue #14 • View online

I know I’ve not been great at writing this newsletter during the months of lockdown, but I promise I’ll be better from now on. I aim to make this weekly, for a “Thinking Tuesday”…

The Unconference and my AMA

So, I’m joining Innov8rs Connect Unconference to support innovators to solve challenges, capture opportunities and lead their organizations to emerge stronger from the crisis. I will be doing an Ask Me Anything on July 23rd, 16:00 CET!

If you’re keen to connect and collaborate with me and hundreds of innovation leaders from around the world, sign up via innov8rs.co/unconf – and as a special treat for my newsletters subscribers, you can get 30% off by using this code: i8UNC-VIP

Fun finds

Beautiful Brutalism

I won’t lie to you, I love a bit of brutalist architecture. This house from the Japanese firm Apollo is wonderful in so many ways.

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Elon Musk's New School – Where 1D/W For Your Kids Will Cost You $7,500

No matter what you think about the man, he does have a knack for imaginative projects. This is the school he designed for his kids, where you study “no language, music, or sports lessons, but students would work on complex projects, such as building battling robots, discussing nuclear politics, and planning how to defeat evil AIs.”

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An Extra in Finnish

Sorry if you can’t read it (as it is in Finnish), but here’s a little thing I wrote about the problematic notion of “new leadership”.