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innovation

Vaughn Tan3rd January 2021 at 1:37pm

Making things that are both new and useful! Everyone wants to do it but few people can. Innovation is inherently about confronting uncertainty, and thus about accepting failure and discomfort. Individuals, teams, and organizations that can innovate are usually the ones which have developed the uncertainty mindset.

See also: adaptability, design, desperation by design, diversity, forcing function, freedom, goal-setting, inefficiency, motivation, negative capability, negotiated joining, open-endedness, realistic imagination, strategy, the work of uncertainty.