Generally speaking, whom do you admire more: the person who initially conceives an invention, or the person who perfects it?
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What I find especially interesting is that whole cultures can skew to one side or the other. E.g., the ancient Greeks had more respect for ideators, whereas the Romans admired perfecters. See also academia vs. industry.
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Current culture apparently respects the respected.
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i don’t understand...?
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Ideators = hedgehogs (understand one new concept well enough to prove it out) Perfectors = foxes (understand all the contextual factors that make the proof of concept janky)
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maybe but i could also spin a story in which the roles are reversed!
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I quite like the definition that 'invention' is creating the thing and 'innovation' is making the thing such that it bcomes a part of people’s lives (which is arguably the harder bit). That’s why I’m more interested in the second part than the first.
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lol this is maybe because the Romans just stole all their ideas from the greeks
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