Dear Houman,

thank you for sharing this piece — I can add two more points, first, in additionally to networking outside your industry, learn and educate yourself outside your industry. One nice approach is to become a Generalist-specialist, one that searches for synergies across industries and fields of research (e.g. the concept of biomimicry is one such source of inspiration) but also live life extensively and gather many, different types of life experience. This may hold the key to an unexpected source of ideas…