Ask HN: Why is my innovative IDEA is always behind the others? When I have a innovative IDEA, I always find that there is others that implemented it faster than me. So in the fast deveploping tech these days, how to work to keep up with the times. Anyone with the same feelings? |
Any doubt? check Nikola Tesla's life.
I believe this aligns with what Peter Thiel said: "It’s much better to be the last mover—that is, to make the last great development in a specific market and enjoy years or even decades of monopoly profits."
My Take? If you are small like me, you have a bigger advantage way more than you think..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
by definition if you are at the beginning you are in a tiny minority and will be struggling to explain what you're up to. You're describing the experience of people up at the top of the curve who are not innovators at all -- trouble is there is so much talk about innovation from people who are just following the herd these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky
who knew that man would set foot on the moon based on some assumptions about conservation of momentum and the kinetic theory of gases.
Myself I was involved in several projects in the 2010s, both working for other people and myself, that were going in the direction of today's chatbots. The technology was not ready!
I thought this talk was up to the minute when I gave it
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/chatbots-in-2017-ithaca...
and three years later felt time had passed it by, and today it seems prophetic.
Myspace beat facebook to the market, but lost the war.
Some guy in the stone age invented wheels. But modern companies reinventing better wheels dominate the market today.
I remember being very impressed back then by their chat bots, how conversational they were, even though now it’s obsoleted by LLMs.