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Greatness Without Goals
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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
The answer, I think, is what it almost always is: that inventors are simply extremely rare. People can have all the incentives, all the materials, all the mechanical skills, and even all the right general notions of how things work. As we’ve seen, even Savery himself was apparently inspired by the same ancient experiment as everyone else who worked... See more
Anton Howes • Age of Invention: Why wasn't the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? Part III
P&G used to have somebody in charge of what they called commercial innovation, which is broadly defined as selling your product in different ways, without fundamentally changing the product itself.
Rail travel is a great example of an industry that is ripe for commercial innovation.
In Germany they have the BahnCard. A 25, 50, or 100 BahnCard are... See more
Rail travel is a great example of an industry that is ripe for commercial innovation.
In Germany they have the BahnCard. A 25, 50, or 100 BahnCard are... See more
Rory Sutherland on LinkedIn: #creativity #behaviouralscience #traintravel #positioning | 155 comments
