“Geography is destiny.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

Technology development in the United States has recently been concentrated in a handful of regions, like Silicon Valley or the Northeast Corridor. Oceanit was founded in Hawaii; not just outside this traditional “loop,” but remote from it: 2,500 miles from the U.S. Mainland and 4,000 miles from Japan. Yet, Honolulu is the 11th largest city in the US and is a major hub for military and trade. In this episode, Patrick K. Sullivan and Catherine Cruz discuss the pervasive, outdated feeling that technology innovation can only spring from a few chosen cities, and how that’s no longer true. Dr. Sullivan shares how geography is not destiny when it comes to innovation, with tools like the internet, jet travel, and global connectivity.

Oceanit practices ‘Intellectual Anarchy’ – empowering teams to break down traditional silos, transcend disciplines, and cross-pollinate ideas and expertise. We create breakthrough ideas, insights, discoveries, and developments — delivering the future as an interdisciplinary force. Through spinouts, co-development partnerships, licensing, and direct manufacturing, Oceanit thrives in delivering solutions to market at scale. Oceanit calls this practice ‘Mind-to-Market’, delivering deep science to disruptive, real-world innovations at scale and impact.

Intellectual Anarchy: The Art of Disruptive Innovation by Dr. Patrick K. Sullivan is available on Amazon. Get your copy at https://bit.ly/2Vk5bhN.

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“We all have a blind spot, and it’s shaped exactly like us.” – Junot Diaz

In Games for the Super-Intelligent, James Fixx tells the anecdote of a high school physics teacher who challenges his students to determine the height of a building using only a barometer. He believes the “right” method is to read the barometer at ground level, climb to the top of the building for another reading, and calculate the height via the measured pressure differential. One student, “bright enough to be bored by the obvious answer,” comes up with two alternative solutions: 1. Drop the barometer from the top of the building and measure the time to ground impact with the formula for. In this episode, Patrick K. Sullivan and Catherine Cruz discuss how defeating functional fixedness leads to breakthrough ideas and unorthodox solutions.

Oceanit practices ‘Intellectual Anarchy’ – empowering teams to break down traditional silos, transcend disciplines, and cross-pollinate ideas and expertise. We create breakthrough ideas, insights, discoveries, and developments — delivering the future as an interdisciplinary force. Through spinouts, co-development partnerships, licensing, and direct manufacturing, Oceanit thrives in delivering solutions to market at scale. Oceanit calls this practice ‘Mind-to-Market’, delivering deep science to disruptive, real-world innovations at scale and impact.

Intellectual Anarchy: The Art of Disruptive Innovation by Dr. Patrick K. Sullivan is available on Amazon. Get your copy at https://bit.ly/2Vk5bhN.

Learn more about Oceanit at https://oceanit.com/deliveringthefuture/ and subscribe to our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/oceanit.

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain

Groupthink is a cognitive bias that impairs decision making by groups of otherwise highly qualified individuals. That is, a group of smart people in a room will sometimes make a worse decision than any of them would make on their own. Group social pressure can lead to a deterioration of, “mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgement.” Sometimes, companies become so entrenched in their “mainframe industry” that they can’t see revolutions about to erupt under them. In this episode, Patrick K. Sullivan and Catherine Cruz discuss Groupthink and how diversity in people and place can overcome an expert group’s perception of invulnerability and superiority, or their stereotyping of outgroups.

Oceanit practices ‘Intellectual Anarchy’ – empowering teams to break down traditional silos, transcend disciplines, and cross-pollinate ideas and expertise. We create breakthrough ideas, insights, discoveries, and developments — delivering the future as an interdisciplinary force. Through spinouts, co-development partnerships, licensing, and direct manufacturing, Oceanit thrives in delivering solutions to market at scale. Oceanit calls this practice ‘Mind-to-Market’, delivering deep science to disruptive, real-world innovations at scale and impact.

Intellectual Anarchy: The Art of Disruptive Innovation by Dr. Patrick K. Sullivan is available on Amazon. Get your copy at https://bit.ly/2Vk5bhN.

Learn more about Oceanit at https://oceanit.com/deliveringthefuture/ and subscribe to our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/oceanit.

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“If an expert tells you it can’t be done, get another expert.” – David Ben-Gurion

Experts are essential to innovation. They know the tools and methods of the field, enabling a rapid start. No time is wasted covering well-trod ground. They know the conventions and terminology of the field and are able to communicate with other experts. But these advantages come at a price… Because experts are so knowledgeable in their own field, they are sometimes reluctant to stray outside it, prematurely limiting the solution space when you do want creativity and disruption. In this episode, Patrick K. Sullivan and Catherine Cruz discuss how too much time spent in rigid academic or business settings can be crippling to creativity, risk appetite, and innovation. When one wants truly disruptive innovation—revolution, not evolution—then expert thinking can sometimes become a straightjacket.

Oceanit practices ‘Intellectual Anarchy’ – empowering teams to break down traditional silos, transcend disciplines, and cross-pollinate ideas and expertise. We create breakthrough ideas, insights, discoveries, and developments — delivering the future as an interdisciplinary force. Through spinouts, co-development partnerships, licensing, and direct manufacturing, Oceanit thrives in delivering solutions to market at scale. Oceanit calls this practice ‘Mind-to-Market’, delivering deep science to disruptive, real-world innovations at scale and impact.

Intellectual Anarchy: The Art of Disruptive Innovation by Dr. Patrick K. Sullivan is available on Amazon. Get your copy at https://bit.ly/2Vk5bhN.

Learn more about Oceanit at https://oceanit.com/deliveringthefuture/ and subscribe to our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/oceanit.

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“You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson. Clayton Christensen first coined the term “disruptive innovation” 20 years ago in his landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, to explain, very narrowly, the destruction of existing markets by low-end entrants, but it has come to mean any sweeping innovation that disrupts an industry. In this episode, Oceanit’s Patrick Sullivan talks with Catherine Cruz about how disruptive innovation pushes science and invention past the bounds of what’s considered possible – and how it exists on the threshold between failure and discovery.

Oceanit practices ‘Intellectual Anarchy’ – empowering teams to break down traditional silos, transcend disciplines, and cross-pollinate ideas and expertise. We create breakthrough ideas, insights, discoveries, and developments — delivering the future as an interdisciplinary force. Through spinouts, co-development partnerships, licensing, and direct manufacturing, Oceanit thrives in delivering solutions to market at scale. Oceanit calls this practice ‘Mind-to-Market’, delivering deep science to disruptive, real-world innovations at scale and impact.

Intellectual Anarchy: The Art of Disruptive Innovation by Dr. Patrick K. Sullivan is available on Amazon. Get your copy at https://bit.ly/2Vk5bhN.

Learn more about Oceanit at https://oceanit.com/deliveringthefuture/ and subscribe to our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/oceanit.

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Dr. Patrick K. Sullivan, author of Intellectual Anarchy: The Art of Disruptive Innovation, joins journalist Catherine Cruz for a deep dive into the mindsets, methods, and moments that spark true innovation. In the coming episodes, they’ll unpack how questioning convention, defeating groupthink, and embracing “principled anarchy” can lead to breakthroughs across science, design, technology, and education.

From the lab to the real world, discover how intellectual chaos—when guided with purpose—can shape the future.

💡 Get ready to rethink everything.