Stumble upon innovation
The economist.com has a great story on innovation from the perspective of Evan Williams, founder of blogger and twitter. In it he says there are 3 rules to innovation
- Genuinely new ideas are stumbled upon
- New Ideas are by definition hard to explain to others.
- The idea seems obvious in hindsight.
This is exactly right I think. I try to explain blogging, podcasting, and social media to people and I get blank stares. Sure others are explaining it as well but they have more success then