Traditional companies are losing because they mismanage software engineers An Article by Emma Watterson ewattwhere.substack.com Innovation is messy, and frankly Anti-Steve [Jobs] can’t figure out why you wouldn’t just tell people the right thing to build and skip all the trial and error that comes with innovation. Anti-Steve and his board of directors that keep him in place fundamentally believe that they know what needs to be built. Or at least that they can hire the messiah that will come down off the mountain and tell everyone what to build. There is no such messiah. Steve Jobs innovationsoftwareagilemanagement
Pointing at things An Article by Austin Kleon austinkleon.com The story goes that the painter Al Held said, “Conceptual art is just pointing at things,” so John Baldessari decided to take him literally, and commissioned a bunch of amateur painters to paint realistic paintings of hands pointing at things. As I wrote in Steal Like An Artist, “Step 1: Wonder at something. Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you.” Point at things, say, “whoa,” and elaborate. PointingRe: Pointing at thingsLooking Closely is Everything interestcuriosityseeing