innovation

What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years

When you’re focused on something few others are thinking about, you find yourself constantly making the case to yourself and others that your vision is worth pursuing and worthy of other people’s attention. This ongoing need to justify your work creates a significant emotional overhead.

Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1

sari

observed: don’t expect customers to celebrate a major innovation before they get use to it. at first blush most customers prefer familiarity, even if a step-function improvement awaits.

scott belsky x.com

phoebe

Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.

alex