Letter from AmeriKat: Hospira's Angiomax win, Apple jury award vacated & Obama's Pacific trade deal

The AmeriKat is no stranger to hissingwhen she thinks change is needed...or if she is hungryHarmony is overrated.   Passivity for the sake of a peaceful life can leave bad behavior unchallenged. Agreement for the sake of agreement can result in missed opportunities.   We all need a degree of discord and disruption to light the path for innovation and, perhaps, a chance of real harmony and internal peace.  Some of the world's most creative and innovative people are said to be creative because, not despite, internal discord and struggle (see Beethoven, Munch, Georgia O'Keefe, Irving Berlin, Virginia Woolf and Vincent van Gough).  Art and music are all about specific types of distortion that change a sound or image in order to stimulate our emotions.  In the words of VS Ramachadran, distortion is designed to "optimally titillate these 30 visual areas of the brain and excite visual emotions."  Disruptive technologies…