innovation
Where new things come from and how they spread: invention against diffusion, and being near the factory floor.
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Gergely Orosz quoted
Our readingInnovation tends to come from slack time away from firefighting, not from being fully utilized.
Their wordsInnovation often comes from having time to focus on other work, instead of putting out fires.
↗The Pulse: Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AIblog.pragmaticengineer.com
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Joe Liemandt quoted
Their wordsin education there's a concept that I think is really poison and why we have trouble innovating in education which is there's a view that you must serve everybody all at once for free like just anything you do in education no matter who it's for they're like I'm going to come up with a counter example where it doesn't work for everybody all at once for free and that's not how products are developed
↗How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe Liemandtyoutube.com 23rd of 26 in this recording
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsIn the 70s and 80s, Japanese companies could get cheap plentiful bank loans to develop new products and explore new markets. Today, they can't. Innovation is downstream of finance.
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Isaiah Taylor quoted
Their wordswhat was missing is that people did not realize that you're going to have to pursue that model through hardware iteration. And that's where really where Valor is unique is that yes, we believe in SMRs, we believe in reactors that are manufactured, but we also know that in order to get there, you have to do it through hardware iteration.
↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 3rd of 18 in this recording
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Travis Kalanick quoted
Their wordsIt's called resistance to change. It's natural because like you know a lot of times change is bad. Um and so you have to deliver an overwhelming amount of progress to make your change happen.
↗Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical Worldyoutube.com 7th of 14 in this recording
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Blake Scholl quoted
Their wordsIn 1969, we landed on the moon for the first time and the same year we flew Concord, the faster than the speed of sound airliner. The future was supposed to be faster and better. where we're supposed to look forward to innovation in air and in space. And yet, half a century later, we can't go to the moon and we can't fly faster than the speed of sound.
↗Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jetyoutube.com 1st of 22 in this recording
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Jensen Huang quoted
Their wordswe want we want to encourage everybody and every company to build their own AIs. And and and who knows what innovation will come from the fact that it's open source.
↗Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIAyoutube.com 12th of 20 in this recording
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Cal Newport quoted
Their wordsit’s also true that their impact on our output was never as tremendous or as clear-cut as that of prior innovations, such as the steam engine or the power loom, and that integrating them effectively into the workforce took a long time
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NeetCode quoted
Their wordsLike every single time there's just like the big innovation like cloud computing, like higher level programming languages, for whatever reason things do not like it doesn't lead to fewer programmers. And I would have expected it would have.
↗Tech interviews with NeetCodeyoutube.com 17th of 21 in this recording
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Mark Pincus quoted
Their wordsin the Peter Teal sense it's almost a moral arbitrage because there's something in our gut as a product you you became a founder an entrepreneur because you wanted to go be an innovator and so it can feel like a beatdown that your path to innovation starts with copying other people's work
↗The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more)youtube.com 4th of 22 in this recording
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Jensen Huang quoted
Their wordsSo you get this rapid, incredible great talent, rapid innovation because of open source and just, you know, the nature of friends, and, and insane competition. Among the company, what emerges is incredible stuff. And so this is the fastest innovating country in the world today
↗Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494youtube.com 11th of 23 in this recording
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Steve Yegge quoted
Our readingGoogle has produced no innovation since 2008; everything it has shipped since has been acquisitions.
Their wordsIn fact, innovation died on the vine like all together and since I don't know, 2008, there has been no innovation from Google. It's all been acquisitions. They have they've created nothing new.
↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 17th of 25 in this recording
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Steve Yegge quoted
Their wordsSo, I think what's happening is we're all looking at the big companies going, "When are you going to give us something?" And the answer is we're looking at the big dead companies. We just don't know they're dead yet.
↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 19th of 25 in this recording
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Jensen Huang quoted
Their wordsbecause of innovation of models algorithms and the computing stack, the cost of AI is actually decreasing well more than 10x every single year. And so if you're just one year behind or even six months behind, you could you could really stay close.
↗NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrativeyoutube.com 11th of 20 in this recording
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Satya Nadella quoted
Their wordsso I can make the argument that oh my god uh if you're a model company you may be you may have a winner's curse you may have done all the hard work done unbelievable innovation except it's kind of like one copy uh away from that being commoditized
↗Satya Nadella – How Microsoft thinks about AGIyoutube.com 8th of 22 in this recording
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Keyu Jin quoted
Their wordsIndustrial policy was heavily criticized and again, if I talk to my Harvard professors, they’ll be very, very, very skeptical about the role of the state, especially in such a major way. But if you look at the Chinese experience, the evidence for success is all there. The cities that have pushed the most on supporting that particular sector ultimately did the best in terms of production, but also in terms of innovation, measured by patents. It’s all in the data.
↗Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477youtube.com 4th of 16 in this recording
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Keyu Jin quoted
Their wordsDo you want technological supremacy and radical breakthroughs? Well, yes. If you do, then you have to tolerate that there are going to be some people who are just going to be uncomfortably rich, like in the United States. You can’t say that you detest the financial system for its greed, but then not accept the fact that it is what fuels innovation, right?
↗Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477youtube.com 5th of 16 in this recording
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Keyu Jin quoted
Their wordsOne interesting point is that, in China, you ask the companies to innovate first, and then you regulate after, right? So, that has led to things like P2P platforms. It’s led to lots of kind of financial innovations, some of which has actually been very helpful and good, some of which had been disastrous, but the intention to regulate after the fact is to really not slow down or hinder the innovation. This is a very different approach from Europe. You regulate first, and then companies have to work around that.
↗Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477youtube.com 7th of 16 in this recording
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Keyu Jin quoted
Their wordsThe US will lead for some time on breakthroughs on disruptive technologies, the zero to one technologies that ultimately change the world. But innovation is a process. It goes from invention to production and commercialization and diffusion, diffusing technology throughout all parts of the economy. And on those two stages, I think that China has a unique advantage, even if it still can’t do the zero to one breakthroughs, because in the end, how much this technology is adopted by the countries and by the various parts of the economy is fundamentally crucial to how much productivity will be unleashed.
↗Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477youtube.com 9th of 16 in this recording
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Keyu Jin quoted
Their wordsAnd remember that DeepSeek happened in times of crisis, urgency, not in times of comfort. A lot of these technological breakthroughs and leapfrogging happens in times of crisis. This is called crisis innovation. And you got to thank the US for that. When the Chinese were comfortably importing chips from the US, the whole industry stalled for 20 years.
↗Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477youtube.com 10th of 16 in this recording
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Sundar Pichai quoted
Their wordsThe best innovations in computing have come through a paradigm IO change, right? When with GUI, and then with a graphical user interface, and then with multi-touch in the context of mobile voice later on. Similarly, I feel like AR is that next paradigm.
↗Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471youtube.com 15th of 21 in this recording
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Molson Hart quoted
Their wordsWhen the factory floor is down the hall, instead of 30 hours of travel away, it’s easier to make improvements and invent.
↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 14th of 16 in this piece
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Oliver Kim quoted
Their wordsThe relative absence of pre-colonial states meant that the newly independent African states were largely European inventions; modern Kenya, for instance, inherits the boundaries of British East Africa, which was created by pulling together the Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya, Kalenjin, and Kamba ethnic groups.
↗No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960global-developments.org 6th of 8 in this piece
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Alex Telford quoted
Their wordsI don’t think many in the West have yet fully internalized a mental model of China as a source of genuine innovation.
↗Will all our drugs come from China?atelfo.github.io 1st of 2 in this piece
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Brian Potter quoted
Their wordsBut in turning these innovations into competitive industries, America has come up short.
↗Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?construction-physics.com 4th of 8 in this piece
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Jeff Bezos quoted
Their wordsThat's an inventor's greatest dream, is that their inventions are so successful that they are one day taken for granted. Nobody thinks of Amazon as an invention anymore. Nobody thinks of customer reviews as an invention.
↗Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405youtube.com 9th of 20 in this recording
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Jeff Bezos quoted
Their wordsIt's interesting to me that large language models in their current form are not inventions, they're discoveries. The telescope was an invention, but looking through it at Jupiter, knowing that it had moons, was a discovery.
↗Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405youtube.com 17th of 20 in this recording
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Lant Pritchett quoted
Their wordsTherefore, we have the perverse situation that the richest people are hiring some of the most talented and technologically sophisticated people on the planet to engage in innovation aimed at driving down the demand for labor—the major and often only asset of the world’s poor.
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Lant Pritchett quoted
Their wordsBut, whether it makes financial sense or not for the individuals involved, they are responding to distorted prices, not scarcity, and the world is not better off from their invention and innovation.
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Lant Pritchett quoted
Our readingPolicy can manufacture a false necessity, and false necessity is the mother of wasteful invention.
Their wordsThere is an old saying that “necessity is the mother of invention” but it is also true that policies can create false necessity and false necessity can be the mother of costly, resource consuming, dumb inventions.
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Charity Majors quoted
Their wordsBut if there’s one thing we know, it’s that for industries that are fueled by creativity and innovation, command-and-control leadership is poison.
↗The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)charity.wtf 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Nick Lane quoted
Their wordsMorally, we cannot base society on the way that evolution works.
↗Nick Lane: Origin of Life, Evolution, Aliens, Biology, and Consciousness | Lex Fridman Podcast #318youtube.com 15th of 22 in this recording
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Bret Devereaux quoted
Their wordsThe specificity matters here because each innovation in the chain required not merely the discovery of the principle, but also the design and an economically viable use-case to all line up in order to have impact.
↗Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution?acoup.blog 2nd of 8 in this piece
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Brian Potter quoted
Their wordsIn many cases, the person specifying a new system won’t capture the upside from actually using it - they’ll be under a sort of reverse moral hazard, where the benefits accrue to the rest of the project team, but the risks will accrue only to them.
↗Why It's Hard to Innovate in Constructionconstruction-physics.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Brian Potter quoted
Their wordsA new or innovative system that involves changes to the process thus incurs a significant risk penalty that would likely exceed the expected benefits of the innovation.
↗Why It's Hard to Innovate in Constructionconstruction-physics.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Dan Wang quoted
Their wordsFirst, even if most of the workforce learns little, a few thousand line engineers become the world’s greatest experts in electronics assembly.
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Don Norman quoted
Their wordsWe challenge this approach. It encourages design by committee and infuses a superficial sense of collaboration that leads to compromises and weakens ideas. Our view, the product of years of studies of and participation in innovation projects, is that effective teams do not defer critical reflection; they create through criticism.
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Cal Newport quoted
Their wordsThe original smartphones solved a real problem: how do I check in on work when away from my office computer? This problem is now better solved by more recent innovations.
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Will Larson quoted
Our reading · no longer heldInnovation should happen inside the existing teams rather than in a fresh team spun up for it, because a separate innovation team creates a two-tier class system.
Recalls holdingI’ve historically done this myself, but I’ve moved towards innovating within existing teams.
SaidThis requires very deliberate decision making and some bravery, but in exchange you’ll get higher morale, a culture of learning, and avoid creating a two-tiered class system of innovators and maintainers.
↗Sizing engineering teams.lethain.com 4th of 5 in this piece
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Will Larson quoted
Our readingInnovation tends to come from slack time away from firefighting, not from being fully utilized.
Their wordsIn this case, it’s to maintain enough slack in your team’s schedule that the team can build quality into their work, and operating continuously in innovation, and avoid backtracking.
↗Staying on the path to high performing teams.lethain.com 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Don Norman quoted
Their wordsI was correct in my original article: what we call design thinking is practiced in some form or other by all great thinkers, whether in literature or art, music or science, engineering or business. But the difference is that in design, there is an attempt to teach it as a systematic, practice-defining method of creative innovation.
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Don Norman quoted
Their wordsBut if you examine the business impact of innovation, you will soon discover that the most frequent gains come from the small, incremental innovations, changes that lower costs, add some simple features, and smooth out the rough edges of a product.
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Don Norman quoted
Their wordsTechnology first, invention second, needs last.