It’s important to step in to that energy and embrace it, because everyday theres the potential for becoming more, making more.
We all want to create more in our lives: more creative output, more time, more money, more freedom. But we also want to do it with less energy, utilizing less resources.
That’s what manufacturing is about!
It’s finding what works to reproduce something with fidelity and cost effectively.
I can’t emphasize enough:
If you want to create better products, learn about manufacturing processes.
You don’t have to be an expert, but find someone that can help you understand ways of making things reality.
You’ll get your products to market quicker and with less headaches.
So many people have come to me with what they think are great ideas. In some ways they are at their source.
The challenge is that they have not put any thought at all into manufacturing. Its not their fault, they just don’t know what they dont know. In many cases, the designs they are so proud of, are simply not manufacturable.
Understand what it takes to create things repeatedly. Whether you’re talking your products or you’re talking about things in your life.
Understand what the needs are, what the requirements are to make something happen, and get the ‘machine’ and systems in motion.
But what if the systems don’t exist to make something?
Invent the process for making something happen. That’s OK! Sometimes new products demand new manufacturing processes.
Wasabi, or more precisely, Western Wasabi, is looking at me funny.
It’s not really the wasabi root. It’s typically a blend of horseradish, mustard and starch. But probably 99% of the people that have tasted ‘wasabi’ have never tasted the real stuff.
Real wasabi is much more expensive and rare. It also has a much less harsh taste-a wonderful earthiness that accents as opposed to overpowers.
This is a case where the innovation has become the standard, for better or worse.
Find a need, meet it, keep the cost down- a recipe for disruptive innovation.
Humans are hardwired for faces. They don’t even have to be human.
We recognize emotion in fact researchers found people can point out their own emotions better in cartoon faces than they can describe them.
If you want to distract someone, or if you want people to look at something, incorporate a face.
But don’t overdo it.
How often have you looked at a roadside sign of a realtor and noticed the person’s face and their features and not even realized what the phone number is?
I will say that this Wasabi doesn’t appear to be out of character.
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