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I appreciate the work and research that went into this. However, I can't help but feel as if some of these statements aren't very concretely true, or untrue.

I appreciate the work and research that went into this. However, I can't help but feel as if some of these statements aren't very concretely true, or untrue. For example, ok, if I get tunnel vision and just focus on one objective, I might lose sight of other paths. I can see what you mean, but let's put that into practice. "If you focus on profit, you might lose focus on innovation." Ok, but if I focus solely on innovation, what happens when I'm not selling anything, or selling things at a loss? The bills come due at some point, and so many people fail. We don't all have endless sums of money that we can rely on while we wait for our Zen powers to coalesce and then people magically send us money.

grasshopperpurp 9y ago
This is why it's important to have passions outside of those that pay the bills. And, if your passions and finances are entangled, which is the goal for most, it's important to build structures that allow times of absolute creativity (time in the goalless path). A writer still must spend time editing his work, which is a different process than creating. So, if you have profit in the back of your mind throughout the process, as the essay notes, you will stifle yourself. If you have an editing process, where you line up your creative expressions with profit, you're basically doing what a writer does when he edits. Bill Walsh's The Score Takes Care of Itself is a fun book that, as the title suggests, deals with this idea.
autokad 9y ago
i felt the title was too over-reaching than one of the actual conclusions "Objectives can, ironically, be obstacles to innovation and creativity.". key word for me is *can. Objectives are pretty good in some cases, but not all. Or perhaps, when they ran their machine learning, they needed to first run some unsupervised learning =)
ballenf 9y ago
Think about Zuckerburg's wealth. If he had sat in his dorm with the goal of building a multi-billion dollar empire, do you think he would have started with "thefacebook"?
- quuquuquu 9y ago
  There's a considerable amount of luck in Zuck's story. Peter Thiel gave him money and he demolished Myspace somehow. I don't think he got there by daydreaming ^.^
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grasshopperpurp 9y ago

This is why it's important to have passions outside of those that pay the bills. And, if your passions and finances are entangled, which is the goal for most, it's important to build structures that allow times of absolute creativity (time in the goalless path). A writer still must spend time editing his work, which is a different process than creating. So, if you have profit in the back of your mind throughout the process, as the essay notes, you will stifle yourself. If you have an editing process, where you line up your creative expressions with profit, you're basically doing what a writer does when he edits. Bill Walsh's The Score Takes Care of Itself is a fun book that, as the title suggests, deals with this idea.

autokad 9y ago

i felt the title was too over-reaching than one of the actual conclusions "Objectives can, ironically, be obstacles to innovation and creativity.". key word for me is *can. Objectives are pretty good in some cases, but not all. Or perhaps, when they ran their machine learning, they needed to first run some unsupervised learning =)

ballenf 9y ago

Think about Zuckerburg's wealth. If he had sat in his dorm with the goal of building a multi-billion dollar empire, do you think he would have started with "thefacebook"?

quuquuquu 9y ago
There's a considerable amount of luck in Zuck's story. Peter Thiel gave him money and he demolished Myspace somehow. I don't think he got there by daydreaming ^.^
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