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Don’t Start From Scratch: How Innovative Ideas Arise
Repurpose long experiences. Many experts struggle with the notion that you can take something that requires mastery and turn it into smaller and easier to understand sections. This is a belief that must be conquered. There is always a way to take the complex and make it easier to digest. Start by taking an inventory of major work processes, initiat
... See moreRohit Bhargava • Non-Obvious 2018 Edition: How To Predict Trends and Win The Future
Humans are effective improvers, naturally, and few of us are naturally comfortable creating from whole cloth.
Steve McMenamin • Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior (Dorset House eBooks)
Anybody can have good ideas. Over the years, I've learned that the first idea you have is irrelevant. It's just a catalyst for you to get started. Then you figure out what's wrong with it and you go through phases of denial, panic, regret. And then you finally have a better idea and the second idea is always the important one.
Jessica Livingston • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Research analyzing historical US patent data has proven inventions are rarely if ever, created from scratch. They are almost always a combination of research and ideas that already exist. Relatedly, Paul Romer, an economist who has spent his career researching economic growth, has found economic growth does not come from new resources - it comes fr... See more