{"id":602259,"date":"2024-02-29T15:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T20:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/29\/inventor\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T15:23:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T20:23:54","slug":"inventor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/29\/inventor\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Inefficiency is key onto innovation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(00:23:11)<\/a> I think a lot of people, and they feel like wandering is inefficient. And when I sit down at a meeting, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how long the meeting is going to take if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to solve a problem, because if I did, then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d know there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some kind of straight line that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re drawing to the solution. The reality is we may have to wander for a long time. And I do like group invention. I think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really nothing more fun than sitting at a whiteboard with a group of smart people and spit balling and coming up with new ideas and objections to those ideas, and then solutions to the objections and going back and forth. So, sometimes you wake up with an idea in the middle of the night and sometimes you sit down with a group of people and go back and forth, and both things are really pleasurable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Wandering <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jeff Bezos(00:22:26)<\/a> It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such a good question, and I honestly don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how it works. If I did, I would try to explain it. I know it involves lots of wandering, so when I sit down to work on a problem, I know I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going. So, to go in a straight line\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 To be efficient\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Efficiency and invention are sort of at odds, because real invention, Not incremental improvement\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Incremental improvement is so important in every endeavor, in everything you do, you have to work hard on also just making things a little bit better. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about real invention, real lateral thinking that requires wandering, and you have to give yourself permission to wander.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

1 of 100<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jeff Bezos(00:20:53)<\/a> Well, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very kind. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m an inventor. If you want to boil down what I am, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m really an inventor. And I look at things and I can come up with atypical solutions. And then, I can create 100 such atypical solutions for something, 99 of them may not survive scrutiny, but one of those 100 is like, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hmm, maybe that might work.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And then, you can keep going from there. So, that kind of lateral thinking, that kind of inventiveness in a high-dimensionality space where the search space is very large, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where my inventive skills come\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I self-identify as an inventor more than anything else.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Inefficiency is key onto innovation (00:23:11) I think a lot of people, and they feel like wandering is inefficient. And when I sit down at a meeting, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how long the meeting is going to take if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to solve a problem, because if I did, then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d know there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some kind of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602263,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602259\/revisions\/602263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}