A yearning for innovation requires real exploration. It requires a persistent search to try (and fail) to move your understanding forward with a new tool, a new technique, a new insight. Sadly, the first innovation often isn’t even all that helpful, but may well provide a path to ones that are. This is an idea that Steven Johnson of Where Good Idea... See more
SAM H INKIE 3 6 0 1 S O U T H B R O A D S T R E E T
Innovation begins with inspiration. Positive visions of the future inject people with imagination, which pulls the future forward.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
The most creative innovations are often new combinations of old ideas. Innovative thinkers don't create, they connect. Furthermore, the most effective way to make progress is usually by making 1 percent improvements to what already works rather than breaking down the whole system and starting over.
James Clear • Don’t Start From Scratch: How Innovative Ideas Arise
2.6.3 True artists produce works that are novel, complex, and ambiguous.
2.6.4 Novel, complex, and ambiguous artworks can always be simplified to make conventional art forms more stimulating for mainstream audiences.
2.6.4 Novel, complex, and ambiguous artworks can always be simplified to make conventional art forms more stimulating for mainstream audiences.
Culture is an Ecosystem: A Manifesto Towards a New Cultural Criticism (2)
These innovations create a distinct shift in a product, service, or process while adding value. They often require more research, development, and investment. For example, some researcher or product engineer
Andy Stefanovich • Look at More: A Proven Approach to Innovation, Growth, and Change
To be innovative is to produce a breakthrough into something new, and this new thing is often tied to increasing speed in transportation, communication, and production.9