A crash course in changing the world.
My favourite point: Innovation (often) comes from constraint (If you’ve got very few resources, you’re forced to be very creative in using and reusing them.)
The need to innovate comes from need, after all. I picked this point over understand the environment/infrastructure/etc., because innovating under constraint is a level above observing the situation you're in. To innovate under constraint, not only do you need to completely understand the situation at hand, you also need a comprehensive knowledge of your resources that you have and can be provided. This is the toughest thing to do when a problem arises, and often times the most effective.
You realize that the best kinds of innovation are tailored to the situations that they are in. Let's say there was a famine in Japan (extenuated by the tsunami, perhaps). You could repeatedly send in foreign aid until some undefined point in the future is reached where it is deemed no longer necessary. But this impractical, much like curing an infection by slapping gauze onto the site.
But the fact remains that innovation is hard. Harder still in constraint, often the easiest solution in times of dire need are to revert to the past, I mean, it worked before, why not now? Innovation gets real tricky as it delves into politics, where resources aren't controlled by geographics, but rather other people. In the end though, the ones who will know, and perhaps solve, problems best are the ones directly effected.
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