Lovely set of thoughts and questions. Every task and every individual carrying out a recognized function operates along a distribution, with the simple, boring tasks stretching out to the left and the challenging, innovative original tasks stretching out far to the right. Most of the productivity enhancers scoop up the stuff on the left …
Lovely set of thoughts and questions. Every task and every individual carrying out a recognized function operates along a distribution, with the simple, boring tasks stretching out to the left and the challenging, innovative original tasks stretching out far to the right. Most of the productivity enhancers scoop up the stuff on the left and (as long as the fellow sitting in the center has the wit and the tools to make sure it is correct and in the style desired -- there are tools already under development for this) productivity goes up many-fold. But the real gains are made on the right, where something new happens, which must be recognized, evaluated, shared and built on. These are two very different problems. I hope the monetizable gains on the left will pay for some of the right hand stuff.
In the stone age, we explore and extend a new idea by explaining it to others until we understand it well enough to take it further and build something new. We can't all do this at once in a global market square -- the cacophony even if all ideas are brilliant is overwhelming. What seems to be missing from the blogosphere and the world of startup accelerators is some economic structure that pulls good ideas together until they reach a survivable size.
Lovely set of thoughts and questions. Every task and every individual carrying out a recognized function operates along a distribution, with the simple, boring tasks stretching out to the left and the challenging, innovative original tasks stretching out far to the right. Most of the productivity enhancers scoop up the stuff on the left and (as long as the fellow sitting in the center has the wit and the tools to make sure it is correct and in the style desired -- there are tools already under development for this) productivity goes up many-fold. But the real gains are made on the right, where something new happens, which must be recognized, evaluated, shared and built on. These are two very different problems. I hope the monetizable gains on the left will pay for some of the right hand stuff.
In the stone age, we explore and extend a new idea by explaining it to others until we understand it well enough to take it further and build something new. We can't all do this at once in a global market square -- the cacophony even if all ideas are brilliant is overwhelming. What seems to be missing from the blogosphere and the world of startup accelerators is some economic structure that pulls good ideas together until they reach a survivable size.