innovation
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
Clayton M. Christensen • 3 highlights
amazon.com
What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years
Chris Dixoncdixon.org
It’s not that entrepreneurs are natural rule-breakers. Rather … they want self-direction. They aren’t going to take the world at face value. They have to figure it out for themselves.
Iconic successes seemed outright strange at first: Amazon (wait days to receive a product you’ve never seen), eBay (buy beanie babies from someone thousands of miles away), Google (trust an algorithm to answer your questions), LinkedIn (publicly post your resume), Facebook (share personal updates with people you haven’t seen in years), Airbnb (stay... See more
Philip Clark • The end of incrementalism: how AI will reward maximalist start-ups
Almost everything that makes up our world first appeared in a solitary head—the innovations, the tools, the images, the stories, the prophecies, and religions—it did not come from the center, it came from those who ran from it.
Substack • Notes | Substack
