Warren Robinett HP Labs Aug 17 2011 Overview This talk is for people who have ideas they want to see get tried out If you just want to show up and get paid it is dangerous to even listen to me You may end up getting fired ID: 784475
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How to Outfox the Innovation Police
Warren Robinett, HP Labs
Aug. 17, 2011
Slide2Overview
This talk is for people who have ideas they want to see get tried out.
If you just want to show up and get paid, it is dangerous to even listen to me. You may end up getting fired.
I’m going to share some strategies that I used (or should have used).
The strategies will be illustrated with video clips and war stories from my career.
Slide3Strategy:
Don’t
Tell
Them What You’re Doing
Clip: Atari 2600 video game
Adventure
War Story: Easter Egg
Slide4Quit and Go Elsewhere
If you’re not willing walk away from a toxic situation, you will end up stuck in one.
You have to know when to hold ‘
em
, and when to fold ‘
em
.
Slide5Start a Company
Clip:
Rocky’s
Boots
for the Apple II
War Story:
The Learning Company
Slide6Convince Them
War
Story:
Sometimes you can. But there are a lot of immovable objects out there.
Slide7Find a Mentor
War
Story:
(TLC) I was smart enough to think of this, but not smart enough to do it.
Slide8Have Patience
War Story
: TLC: Shouldn’t have quit.
Slide9Pay the Tax
Clip: Virtual Reality at NASA Ames
War
Story:
If the benefits of a large organization are worth it, pay the tax without whining.
Slide10Fund Yourself
Clip:
Snap ‘N Click
Math Game
War Story:
Snap N Click: Never saw the light of day.
Slide11Find an Oasis
Clip: UNC VR Room
Clip:
Nanomanipulator
Slide12Ignore the Naysayers
Clip: VR Molecules
Clip: VR Bird
Clip: VR Dog
War Story
: Serious Graphics
Slide13Find a Patron
War Story
: Where is Ted
Williams’s
soul?
Slide14Ride the Tiger
Clip: CBS News
on VR
War Story:
Media Feeding Frenzy
Slide15Satisfy a Need
Memristive
Crossbar
(HP Labs)
War Story:
P
hil Didn’t Write
Slide16Summary: Strategies of Independence
Quit
and Go
Elsewhere
Don’t Tell Them What You’re Doing
Ignore
the
Naysayers
Fund
Yourself
Ride the Tiger
Slide17Start
a
Company
Convince Them
Have Patience
Summary: Strategies of
Cooperation
Slide18Find
an
Oasis
Pay
the
Tax
Satisfy
a
Need
Find
a
Mentor
Find a Patron
Summary: Strategies of
Mutuality