Douglas Fast

Coaching clients innovating in the physical space.

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

@dukematlock While continuous improvement does indeed provide improvement, breakthroughs come from solving contradictions, aka paradoxes, conundrums, and the like. And make no mistake, contradictions can be solved! #innovation #triz

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

One inch forward lies darkness
- Japanese proverb
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[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
—Marcel Proust
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[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word "no."

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.”
—Groucho Marx

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick-boxing"
- Emo Philips

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

All men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most hastily pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
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[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

“Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."
- Epictetus

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

One possible reason that things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan in the first place.

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

Do Your Worrying Before You Place Your Bet, Not After the
Wheel Starts Turning

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

If you hear a voice within you saying "You are not a painter,"
then by all means, paint ... and that voice will be silenced.
—Vincent van Gogh, Dutch post-impressionist painter

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

The wrong answers are the ones you go looking for when the right answer is staring you in the face
- Eeyore’s Little Book of Gloom

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

I have a UDP joke but you won’t get it and I don’t care.

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is ... well, primarily misunderstood.  And a little short on depth perception ...

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper, and faster will take us so far. But it will not take us far enough. We are going to have to do new things in new ways.
- Peter Bonfield

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

Unfortunately, school and university curricula still offer no special course that could be called "Selection of a Worthy Goal”
- Genrikh Altshuller

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

“Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out. Do you want me to tell you what I think? Yes, do. I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind. Blind but seeing. Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
- Jose Saramago

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

“There is simply no way to incrementally optimize your way across a chasm.”
@darrellmann
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[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Douglas Fast @darkwatertek]

The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
- Captain Jack Sparrow
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