“It’s about cultivating a creative culture. You can’t just turn on a switch and suddenly everybody is right and brilliant. You need to create momentum towards out-of-the-box thinking.”

Helping develop a fossil free mobility system for an entire country would be the project of a lifetime for most of us. For Dan Hill, it’s just another workday (albeit a pretty exciting one).

In true start-up fashion, what began as a habit tracker with a focus on automatically sharing status updates in a chat between friends evolved into Kin, a social wellness app to achieve your goals more efficiently and a support system to hold you accountable.

Black culture has played a huge part in shaping internet culture as we know it. Now, Creative Ecosystems is collecting many of these online sources of Black art and imagination in one place.

This year, they include re-examining our relationship with everything (from technology to our employer), the coming metaverse, how to think about trust as a competitive edge, building care into more organizational experiences, and designing for scarcity. 

The people who are good at coming up with ideas don’t turn it on and off for work. What they create comes from the accidental byproduct of living their lives. So how do you get to that point?