innovation
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 r... See more
Stewart Brand • Pace Layering: How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
lol lowkey reminds me of small tweaks in software resulting in big change Dx
“I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance— and bitter, exaggerated, last-ditch resistance— to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money as a result of the change. Although they never advanced
... See moreYou only get to be early and right about a lot of things by trying a lot of things.
Early.
What the Smartest People Do on the Weekend Is What Everyone Else Will Do During the Week in Ten Years
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@TrungTPhan: Went down a rabbit hole for cross-industry innovations (when one industry borrows from another).
Here are 8 gems.
1. James Dyson made a bagless vacuum after seeing how sawmills used cyclone force to eject sawdust.
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