innovation
Greatness Without Goals
joincolossus.comOne does not get a jet engine by improving the propeller. One does not breed horses until they give birth to a car. Telephones did not come from research on mail. Where on earth did the inspiration for the transistor and these other "leaps" of innovation come from to begin with?
Paradigm Shifts

I do not think the new cool thing will be unimaginably better It will be different
-Zvi Mowshowitz
If you have unconventional ideas, you can create a large impact by forcing those ideas onto people and systems that exist in conventional institutions
-Palmer Luckey
Take a coniferous forest. The hierarchy in scale of pine needle, tree crown, patch, stand, whole forest, and biome is also a time hierarchy. The needle changes within a year, the crown over several years, the patch over many decades, the stand over a couple of centuries, the forest over a thousand years, and the biome over ten thousand years. The... See more
Stewart Brand • Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
lol lowkey reminds me of small tweaks in software resulting in big change Dx
