innovation

“It was really the hobbyists and the neophiles and the kind of weird people who are doing it for all manner of non-utility based reasons, who are the people who are probably essential if you're to get out of kind of local Local maxima in innovation in a way.”

“Agreement is, is not a great goal if what you're trying to do is be innovative or creative in your problem solving. Do cognitive diversity is extremely helpful. That's when you'll get your best ideas.”

“I think that we are changing the nature of childhood, and we're too focused on skills that actually Don't matter as much. And what we're creating is a generation of people who do well on tests, but may not have the, may not develop, may not have a chance to de…”

“The power of the march isn't about just this year. It's the commitment to the consecutive performance that will force you to innovate ahead of disruptions.”

“I think this is probably what I'd tell people, that there's no reason we can't innovate indefinitely, if not infinitely. And people say, well, how can that be? We'll run out of resources. And I'll say no, because half the time these days, we're innovating to u…”

“I want to talk about innovation, which is the process by which a bright idea is turned into something practical, reliable, and available, and affordable for ordinary people. And that's a long slog, and it's a lot of hard work, and it's often more important, mo…”

“You know, in the end, it all boils down to freedom, the freedom to Exchange ideas, the freedom to fail and start again, the freedom to change your mind, the freedom to invest where you think it's right to invest the freedom as a consumer to express your prefe…”

“I think what happens is that people share their ideas, exchange their ideas, collaborate, and what really counts is how well people are communicating with each other, not how clever they are as individuals.”

“It's actually the subjective judgments are the interesting ones because, like, the objective judgments are easy. You don't need a degree to just measure something. You know, some kid takes some test, you get a score. You can average them across everybody at th…”

“How innovation actually happens is individual connections. Most people see some idea somebody had and say, well, that doesn't fit with the usual paradigm. Like that's not actually a good idea. Like we know the right way. Now we're all very sure right now what …”

“I think it's not unique, but it's probably single, maybe low double digits of companies have ever attempted it. Most companies are just trying to be, like, build, like, find their market fit, their core competency, and then play a defensive game around this, w…”

“Everyone pays lip service to innovation, but innovation costs you a lot. Innovation is a, if you want this, every single, like, solving any single problem in a company is tenix as hard as it is if you don't.”

“What's cool about building a constraints based culture is when you eliminate all those risk surfaces that are what we call not safe to try or like fatal. What's left is all this space to think. So if I say it's not mops and it's not cars, you get everything el…”

“I think the innovation will drive a lot of a new employment. We will also, you know, have a lot of you know, obsolescence, you know, in, in jobs and even functions and industries and processes, but that's the nature of you know, of a capitalist, you know, free…”

“In my experience, those real innovative moments actually occur when the brain is relaxed, when the heart is relaxed, ok? When we are not terrified that we are not enough.”

“Remote work is generally not great for innovation unless you're truly in an online collaborative environment.”

“Think of it as in manufacturing, you want to drive out variation. And in innovation, you want to increase variation. And so process really is the language and model of driving out variation and getting to consistency. And if you're in a safety critical busines…”

“When everyone agrees something will never work, That's precisely when they stopped testing it. Consensus kills innovation.”