“reduced creativity due to the tendency to incrementally modify known successful designs rather than explore radically different and potentially superior ones.”

“reduced creativity due to the tendency to incrementally modify known successful designs rather than explore radically different and potentially superior ones.” This rings _so true_ to me. You go into a meeting, one person says some idea. You spend three quarters of the meeting discussing that idea, discovering its pitfalls and warts, and then you come up with answers to those. And then that's it. Nobody likes the written word, write up a proposal discussing a bunch of options for the problem at hand, let me read it, and _then_ let's all go into a meeting together. But most times when I write out a few paragraphs on any medium people skim it or ignore it, and then ask questions that were already covered, or don't read it at all and need to be brought up to speed during the meeting wasting everyone's time whose already spent a few minutes alone with some ideas first. It's just... so ineffective, and yet _so hard to change_.