innovation

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

Alara

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

sari

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

AAndrei Stoica

lol lowkey reminds me of small tweaks in software resulting in big change Dx

Most big technology companies are competitor focused. They see what others are doing, and then work to fast follow. In contrast, 90 to 95 percent of what we build in AWS is driven by what customers tell us they want.