Every innovation starts off as a delusion.

  • Every innovation starts off as a delusion.
    • An innovation requires doing something that goes against the status quo.
      • A delusion, as far as everyone else is concerned.
    • But some delusions, if they turn out to be useful and actually be viable, are revealed to be innovations.
      • Does the startup idea cohere into an Apple… or a Theranos?
    • Hallucinations, delusions, are where the capacity to imagine something different comes from.
    • Without hallucination, nothing outside of the status quo would ever happen.
    • Everything would just pull towards the heat death of uniformity.

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