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...'s impossible for novel new ideas to take root. Novel ideas must be outside the status quo; they are foreign and fragile to start. Warrens are great for novel ideas to take root. They're also great places to rock tumble new rough ideas into...
...ird stuff is bad. Sometimes it's great. But it allows things different from the status quo to accumulate and be selected over. If you have a selection function, the entity with more variance will tend to be more innovative. The departure po...
...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 innov...
...ithout audacity." Greatness requires audacity. Something that pushes beyond the status quo. Found via this excellent article on castles in the middle ages.
...everyone who interacts with and touches it. Many more stakeholders. Our current status quo is that someone else owns your data. That obviously is wrong. But a world where users "owned" their data and any collaborators couldn't do anything a...
.... Although they're less likely to use the word "hate." Bureaucracy is about the status quo and downside capping. Innovation is about upside. Both the Saruman and Radagast magic are about innovation and upside. The lack of magic, the dull, d...
...n people who decide to emigrate. Emigrating is a hard thing to break out of the status quo, it requires volition. People know that if they come here and succeed they can be accepted as truly American, not American with an asterisk. It's the...
...is dangerous, it's only between the lines you can see how much it questions the status quo.
...bed it, then someone could sue them if they ever stopped. Two problems with the status quo: 1) You can't actually verify that they are using privacy preserving techniques in the pipeline. They could extract tons of personal signal out of al...
Creativity is intrinsically inefficient. Efficiency means "doing the status quo more cheaply and reliably". Creativity is variance outside the status quo, on the edge of chaos and consensus.
...ntralization, user empowerment) is nearly an order of magnitude better than the status quo. The overall impact to maximize is the differential fidelity to your values (compared to the status quo) multiplied by the number of people affected[...
Both Sarumans and Radagasts are suspicious of techne. That is, the status quo, bureaucrat energy, the cog in the machine, the corporate zombie.
...onger the longer the streak is. To do something different than the default, the status quo, requires activation energy. That activation energy scales with how different it is. The activation energy is effectively "why now?" Lots of real wor...
Pockets are where innovative ideas come from. Things that are outside the status quo.
...efault. That's what it means to be creative! A thing that is different from the status quo; that is in implicit conflict with it.
...ste," reified into a playbook. It produces output that is wildly outside of the status quo. You see one result from the playbook and it's super compelling, sui generis, innovative. But now imagine seeing 20 examples back to back. You'll see...
...eople with taste to differentiate themselves from the people going with the new status quo. Everyone is constantly seeking an edge; some people's variance turns out to be good, and then others follow along, and over time it becomes the new ...
...thing innovative could happen. It would all just be pulled to the centroid, the status quo. And yet the boundary between our minds is hard to communicate over, and why sharing a good idea is so hard. The vast majority of human experience is...
...things don't fit in the surrounding system, fundamentally. If they fit into the status quo, if they went with the grain, they wouldn't be interesting. Interesting things are about innovation, but also they are dangerous to the existing orde...
...w creations are speciation events. They need to deviate from the core, from the status quo. The more signals that are being spread around, the more quickly it pulls everyone to the status quo. You need a bit of isolation for speciation to o...