Search and Vision for Systematic Innovation
How to be productive in innovation? The simple answer is "work hard", "be systematic", "believe in a larger vision". Best to illustrate this: I am writing a python program to do something new. I know that to be innovative I need to be "one level above" what was previously done. So I include a construction which I know enables this "newness". The problem is that this construction does not fit with "the normal code". I notice this only after my first attempt to put things together, when on the way to a design, I cannot find a way to bring back in the requirements I have dropped. Let's call this first attempt design A . When you fail, you try again. I pivot my design, now to focus on B . Same result, design fails to bring in all requirements. I try again, now focusing on C . Same result, the design does not fit. A this point I start worrying. I step back. I explain to my daughter: "tricky, but I have got it! Wh...