Collisions, Co-learning & Connectedness: Remembering Tony Hsieh – Impact Hub Bradford

My career in technology, research and innovation cultures over the last twenty years has been shaped by two central ideas – diversity and collisions. My first vivid experience of this was trip to MIT’s Media Lab in Boston. At the time, I worked for Orange’s Technology Research team, scouting the world for startups and ideas we could invest in and acquire. Visiting Media Lab was a revelation. The lab existed as a nexus point between MIT’s various schools, creating a diverse, serendipitous and experimental culture which created ongoing opportunities for people from those schools to encounter each other’s works. The second inflection point came as I left Orange to work on translating what I learned in Boston, to developing the technology ecosystem of Leeds. In working to launch the city’s first coworking space at Old Broadcasting House, I came across the work of Tony Hsieh and the Downtown Project – a large scale placemaking project, to transform downtown Las Vegas into a creative and inn

My career in technology, research and innovation cultures over the last twenty years has been shaped by two central ideas – diversity and collisions. My first vivid experience of this was trip to MIT’s Media Lab in Boston. At the time, I worked for Orange’s Technology Research team, scouting the world for startups and ideas we could invest in and acquire. Visiting Media Lab was a revelation. The lab existed as a nexus point between MIT’s various schools, creating a diverse, serendipitous and experimental culture which created ongoing opportunities for people from those schools to encounter eac

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