The Little Black Book of Innovation

1. I did have to do a little research to confirm that the concert was in fact on a Saturday. Thanks, setlist.fm! From this Web site, I learned that my concert was one of ten times that Pearl Jam has played “Timeless Melody” by The La’s, live. The wonderful uselessness of the Internet certainly makes writing books more pleasurable. And greetings to footnote readers. You’ll note the footnotes here are not academic references—they are parenthetical or personal comments. Unless otherwise presented in the footnote, the full bibliographic details of any source discussed in this book are given in the appendix and endnotes.

2. In my year, there were two 80-student sections of what became known as BSSE, both taught by Christensen. In the 2009–2010 academic ...