In the video "9 Principles" Media Lab director Joi Ito proposed the fundamental principles that guides innovation for the Media Lab's work under his leadership: (this person created a summary of the video)
Disobedience over compliance. You don't win a Nobel Prize by doing what you are told, you win Nobel Prizes by questioning authority and thinking for yourself.
Emergence over authority. How does the authority of a system exist? Authority is not about someone with a title, authority is about leadership.
Practice over theory. It is better to have a fact than a theory.
Learning over education. Education is what others do to you, learing is what you do to yourself.
Pull over push. Pull from the network as you need it rather than stocking what you think you might need.
Compasses over maps. You need to have a compass heading of where you want to to, not an entire map.
Resilience over strength. Understand how to recover (bounce back, resilience) rather than focusing on how not to fail.
Systems over objects. Focus on the system, not the objects in the system.
Risk over safety. Take risks, don't spend your entire time figuring out how not to fail.
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