Sublime

Then in grand Steve style he’d whip out something fun and exciting to surprise the board—a new prototype or a never-before-seen demo.

This class is responsible for more yards of built-in bookshelf space than any group in history.

Bruce Horn, one of the precocious teens recruited to test Smalltalk, would go on to join the LRG staff, where he contributed to Smalltalk. He later joined Apple and helped design the original Macintosh.109 By describing kids like Horn as a “‘hacker phenomenon,’”110 Kay inadvertently points to another impediment: their designs targeted an idealized

educational institutions can become the breeding ground for imaginative solutions.

Observers in the Back of the Room

Educators act as guides

When developing the Segway, Dean Kamen didn’t open the door to this kind of feedback. Concerned that someone would steal his idea, or that the fundamental concept would become public too soon, he maintained strict secrecy rules.

The message is that it is possible—even desirable—to blend a traditional, discipline-based role with an innovation persona.