The premise that "most breakthroughs don’t come through feedback — they come from personal immersion in a problem area oneself and bold ideas." is seductive to

The premise that "most breakthroughs don’t come through feedback — they come from personal immersion in a problem area oneself and bold ideas." is seductive to geeks and generalists, the engineering mindset. I wonder if it doesn't take the huge differences in perspective that exist between different groups of people sufficiently into account. You can scratch your own itch, but if your itch is not common among the target audience, scratching it is not going to be a breakthrough for them.