Keep Innovating

To /keep innovating/ is to innovate, and than to do it again. But you can’t just do the same thing again. You need to do do something new again.

What is Innovation?

Innovation is the process of applying new ideas to solve problems. To think what no one has thought before, to do what no one has done before, that is just the beginning. To innovate is to create something new, that is useful.

The Coolest Innovations

The coolest innovations are those that are simple, broadly applicable, really new and are vividly communicated. Examples are the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, Shannon’s entropy and Bloom Filters.

Keep Innovating

To keep innovating is more than just to innovate once. Innovating once is great, but to keep innovating means to do something new again, and you can’t just do the previous thing again. You need to come up with new ideas. This is hard.

How to Keep Innovating

To keep innovating, you need depth, breadth and creativity. You need depth because you need to understand the problem you are solving, what has been done before and how to execute. You need breadth because you need to look at the problem from different angles. You need creativity because you need to come up with new ideas. Execution is also important. You need to be able to turn your ideas into reality.

Why We Need to Keep Innovating

Without innovation, we will stagnate. Stagnation is the nucleus of regression. There are so many problems with the status quo that, if we don’t innovate, we will be stuck with them. Status quo is not an option, until all the stuff is made of gold, that is a long way to go.