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Why Successful Children Don’t Innovate: An Evolutionary Perspective
- earleybird 5y agoIs this a lengthy way of saying innovation comes from a deep understanding of the process or tool to be innovated on? To cast in terms of s/w development in my day job, these days I often suggest we build some minimal solution to better understand what our business users need.
- eternityforest 5y agoI think the literal most important thing I've learned working in computers is to appreciate best practices, off the shelf code, and a militant avoidance of the new, the creative, and the elegant, unless of course it's a new industry standard. Anyone can learn them in a week, unfortunately it seems to take years to actually appreciate the value. Some people seem to have an amazing ability to innovate. I can't confidently say I've built anything interesting or innovative in the last decade and actually benefitted from it. I'm not even fully sure that I learned anything useful in all my early years of random toy projects. I think I learned more in six months of working with people who have background in enterprisy, by the book stuff than in years of making my own crappy language and editor, designing network protocols, and such.
- fuzzfactor 5y agoA very small number of people innovate naturally to begin with, and they do it since the youngest of ages up until way past accepted ranges. Very few cultures support any of this, and most actively discourage innovation if it presents the possibility of leading to change. Over the millennia, the child that innovates has been systematically discouraged by many distinct systems. Regardless, as we have seen, not every one can be stopped. Less-natural innovation which is cultivated later in life is good too, but most cultures don't know what they're missing.