Caveman Hardcore Inventing

"Hardcore Inventing" written by Robert Yonover, the inventor of RescueStreamer now deployed in all navies and air forces of the world, contains extremely inspiring ideas for entrepreneurial innovators.

After Peter Drucker's "Innovation and Entrepreneurship," we all know entrepreneurial innovation must be "simple".

How simple?

According to the authors, it should be ape-level, caveman-level simple.

In their primitive conditions, our primitive ancestors innovated "quickly" as their survival depended on it. They used only "materials at hand" and scavenge these resources by "carefully observ[ing] [their] surroundings".

Lack Of Imagination -- Neuroticism Declines with Age

Actually I don't really know "Neuroticism " even as an English word. I just take it to mean a combination of nervousness, paranoia and superstition.

I stumbled upon the Big Five of Personality- OCEAN : Openness to experience, Conscientiousness Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism, and had to look up on its technical definition.

Wikipedia defines it as

Neuroticism: (sensitive/nervous vs. secure/confident). The tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily, such as anger, anxiety, depression, and vulnerability. Neuroticism also refers to the degree of emotional stability and impulse control and is sometimes referred to by its low pole, "emotional stability".

I read around on the web and found some articles claim that neuroticism declines with one's age.

Even Wikipedia claims in one article that

Males however, tend to gradually decrease in Neuroticism from childhood to adolescence into adulthood.

I don't want to call this lack of imagination or perspective.

I prefer to call this lack of experience or lack of memory/recall.

Haven't they seen old people, both genders, become more afraid of falls, strangers, loud noises, various real or imaginary ailments as they grow old?

Entrepreneurship is not a silver bullet for the economy. Technology is not a silver bullet for the productivity ...

Entrepreneurship is not a silver bullet for the economy.

Technology is not a silver bullet for the productivity of the economy.

You are right.



Henry Ford — 'Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.'

Use Of Imagination --- Fast Track Slow Lane

Space shuttles explode. Once in a while.
















Bridges collapse. Once in a while.




Trains go slow. Once in a while.

Why?

Causes could be

A
B
C
Something Else

Lack Of Imagination -- Robots and Human Pets

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says humans will be robots' pets


When Robots Rule the World

But why would a robot want to have a pet? And if it did want one, why would it choose a human? We would just be way too high maintenance, ...

No other species on this planet keeps a creature from another species as a pet. When was the last time you saw a giraffe taking a tortoise for a walk? Or a gorilla keeping a white mouse for companionship?

I suspect Mr Wozniak has lost the plot somehow. ...  "I got this idea (about robots taking over) a few years ago, and so I started feeding my dog fillet steak and chicken every night because 'do unto others'."

Now this really is a bit rich, coming from a man whose company treats many of its Asian workers with scant regard. If Mr Wozniak were a "do unto others" person, he would surely make sure that the workers in, for example, the factories that manufacture Apple products in China were treated more humanely.

Lack of Imagination --- Beating Computers and Software

The New Silk Road,  Hardly an oasis, Kazakhstan turns geography to advantage as China builds a “New Silk Road”
Nov 15th 2014

As Chinese manufacturers move inland, getting their products to European markets has become more complicated. The journey back to the coast and halfway around the world by sea takes up to 60 days—an eternity for the latest iPads and other “fast fashion” products. Kazakhstan offers a backdoor route. Trains from Chongqing in south-west China to Duisburg in Germany, 10,800 kilometres (6,700 miles) via Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland, supposedly take just 14 days.

Computers will think and decide like this:

days_on_route_1 = 60
days_on_route_2 = 14

if days_on_route_2 < days_on_route_1
    select(days_on_route_2)
else
    select(days_on_route_1)

Humans, especially those well-versed in Chinese culture, on the other hand, may have read Sun Tzu and they may know better.

Courage Math and Imagination Essays - Part 2

We can teach kids to be imaginative by asking them

1. to copy Degas, Gauguin, Picasso, Monet or Van Gogh
2. to design new Lego Mindstorms, BeagleBone, Arduino, Raspberry Pi robots 
3. to play Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Tchaikovsky 
4. to write Harry-Potter yarns or Roald Dahl thrillers 
5. to design their own dresses and accessories 
6. to design their own makeup 
7. to design their own furniture 
8. to take very nice and unusual photos and selfies 
9. to compose jingles, rhymes, and songs 
10. to write movie scripts.

All these are nice and can be effective. But some of them incur some considerable costs.

Essays, you don't even need papers and pencils to write.

You can write "air"/ verbal/spoken essays like Obama, Steve Jobs, Lincoln. Or like Stalin or Hitler.

Kids hate essays because they don't know how to imagine, to dream, to envision.

Kids grooming to be CEO's, Prime Ministers, Generals, articulate and therefore value-multiplying scientists, communicative and therefore value-adding knowledge-workers need all these skills.

We at EssayKKN know better.

Dont' we? ;-)

                                                     

Courage Math and Imagination Essays - Part 1

We can teach kids to overcome fear by asking them:

1. to do extreme sports such as rock climbing, wing suit flying, parkour 
2. to join street gangs and take part in streets fights 
3. to go out of their comfort zones by studying strange math problems 
4. to go out of their comfort zones by studying strange foreign languages 
5. to taste the fear of the unknown by visiting Syria or Afghanistan 
6. to sell by cold-calling total strangers 
7. to eat scary-looking but harmless insects or creatures 
8. to touch scary-looking but harmless snakes like Python,or fangless cobras

But then I have some reservations for some of these proposals.

1. We have only 1 life. A bad fall can end my kid's life before s/he learns how to control her/his fears.
2. Same with reptiles.
3. What s/he learns in Syria may not apply in other parts of human civilization.
4. S/he may not need to use those foreign languages that often in her/his later lives.

So we teach Yoda-style fear-controlling mind tricks through Math, Physics, Chemistry or Javascript or Essays. With us, kids will never fear to think on their own feet.

Steve Jobs once saw a few masters disassemble and re-assemble electronic gadgets and he never feared them throughout his life.

We at EssayKKN, try to do the same for your kids with science and learning and essays.