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... See more

• Embrace failure as discovery, foster insatiable curiosity, and iterate relentlessly


• The core principle: break things, test repeatedly, and view each failure as eliminating one wrong approach


• If you can dream it, you can build it through iterative experimentation.

Naive Optimism + Strategic Execution

• Turn ideas into action by combining an optimistic

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