Discovered “Speculative Design” — a framework I hadn’t encountered before. The quote captures it perfectly: “We cannot work towards an improvement that we cannot imagine” — Elise Boulding.
It’s like Conway’s Law applied to innovation: your ability to improve is constrained by your ability to envision something different. Speculative Design gives you tools to imagine beyond current constraints.
The comments went deep: Russell Smiley on how change requires visualizing different possibilities, John Sullivan on his “Death Star” thought experiment about building at massive scale, and Doug Finke with Einstein on imagination.
Originally posted on LinkedIn.