As a Man Thinketh So Is He.

James Allen

@kevinleversee

Innovation and StartupsA brief discussion for

Snt. Dominic’s College

My Goal is to inspire a future full of inventors

We can change the world, by changing the way people think.

@kevinleversee

I am not an expert

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We have the right to

dream Heroic Dreams

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Kevin! You must be F*cking Stupid or F*ckingCheap! out of ANYONE in

the world WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT YOU?!

-Dean Leversee

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Typical (Filipino) Student

Psychological Maps

Psychological Maps

Why We Do What We DoWhy.

Why we do what we do?

The Past is not our future.

Decision is Destiny.

Why did we not achieve the

goal?

What stops us from being

our best?

At the end of the day…

Its Us. EMOTION.

Things that Stop Us

• Family Pressures

– What was ten years ago is not today

• Money Pressures

– We do not have a $ problem, we have idea problem

• Society (Culture) Pressures

– The virtue of selfishness

You do not want a

good job.

You want what

that job gives you

You do not want

Technology

You want what

that Technology

gives you

What Do YOU

want?

Do you even

know?

Learn how to

Learn.

You are the Pilot.

Connections have Meaning

How things are Versus What they Can Be?

Go from Victim to Victor

Change the DNA

Empower

Inspire new startups

Transcend

• Decision is Destiny = Evolve

• Greatness is a process = Agility

• Excellence is a habit not a virtue = Iterations

Desire, Human Behavior and the Village

Myth

=

It is a business not a science

project or popularity

contest

Why?

• Desire is the foundation to everything

• Human behavior is social

• Linguistic relativity and the village

• Social knowledge and cultures

• Village is intimacy

• The world is our village

Do schools Kill Creativity?

Why do Sh*t you hate?

Natural ability without education has more often

attained to glory and virtue than education without

natural ability. Cicero

@KevinLeversee

kleversee@gmail.com

Sources• http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great Good to great book and research powerful and a major cornerstone in my life http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles/good-to-great.html

• http://www.ted.com/talks/tony_robbins_asks_why_we_do_what_we_do.html Tony Robbins on why we do what we do

• Synaptic Web (Cloud Ave) http://www.cloudave.com/link/on-the-synaptic-web

– (Paper) http://synapticweb.pbworks.com/

• http://youtu.be/EhqZ0RU95d4 Gary V on why do sh*t you hate?

• John Battelle (Google Rolls Out Social Search) http://battellemedia.com/archives/005107.php

• Mark Granovetter Network Theory Revisited The strength of Ties http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.128.7760&rep=rep1&type=pdf.

• Small Worlds (paper then book) http://tam.cornell.edu/tam/cms/manage/upload/SS_nature_smallworld.pdf

• Google Paper (The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine) http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/361/

• Aardvark Paper (“Anatomy of a Large-Scale Social Search Engine” ) http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/06/social-searching-with-aardvark-a-large-social-search-engine/

– TechCrunch (Impact of Aardvark paper) http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/02/aardvark-research/

• Abandoning the News http://carnegie.org/publications/carnegie-reporter/single/view/article/item/124/

• Wave McannErickson (Slideshare) http://www.slideshare.net/webrazzi/universal-mccann-wave-3

– (Full Report) http://ia311314.us.archive.org/2/items/UniversalMccannWave3PowerToThePeople/Wave3.pdf

• Pew Report (Social Media and Young Adults) http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Social-Media-and-Young-Adults.aspx

• Danah Boyd (Trust and Intimacy) http://www.danah.org/papers/Ubicomp2003WorkshopApp2.pdf

– (World Of Warcraft) http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/05/the_power_of_so.html (Glocalization) http://www.danah.org/papers/Etech2006.html

– (Streams of Content) http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/Web2Expo.html

– (iPhone Cluster Effect) http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2008/07/15/can_the_iphone.html

– (sociality is learning) http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/11/30/sociality_is_le.html

• John Seely Brown (push pull) www.johnseelybrown.com/pushmepullyou4.72.pdf

• John Hagel http://www.johnhagel.com/view20051015.shtml

• Cluetrain (The Cluetrain Manifesto) http://www.cluetrain.com

• Metcalf (pro) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

– (counter) http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/metcalfes-law-is-wrong