innovation
One 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
Impossible Foods CEO Patrick Brown on a new kind of meat
podcasts.apple.comThe Google AI team is in such a tough place: the targets will keep moving as their competitors advance. Any launch will hurt the brand that doesn’t live up to expectations which are rising. Throwing thousands of engineers to accelerate typically will slow things down. It’d be almost better to acknowledge they’re behind, take the short term hit,... See more
Suhailx.cominteresting thought on what Google should do as OpenAI and other competitors continue to lead. Go slow to go fast. Classic innovators Dilemma.
That right there is the recipe for genuine innovation:
- Embrace uncertainty and the fact one doesn’t know the future.
- Understand that people are inventing things — and not just technologies, but also use cases — constantly.
- Remember that the art comes in editing after the invention, not before.
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The creative power of misfits
ted.com@borismus You only get to be early and right about a lot of things by trying a lot of things.
Early.
Stewart Brandtwitter.comGreatness Without Goals
joincolossus.com
Never forget that time Mckinsey told AT&T that cell phones would be a “niche” market and it ended up costing the company $12B+. https://t.co/HMoLD5jJNe
never hire McKInsey