Looks like we’ll be back in Tokyo in a few months. Land of Collab. Must be something in the water. In the 50’s, after WWII, the Japanese would copy American products and value-add 10%. That’s how it worked but only temporarily. Copying never leads to innovation. If it’s used for anything other than a place to incubate an idea — it’s like the screenwriter Charlie Kaufmann says: ‘If you seen it before or you know what it is… you’re not doing anything new.’ And that is not a value-add, that’s value-subtraction. Japan, to me, is the high water mark for the meshing of innovative, collaborative thought.