Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
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Few ideas work on the first try. Iteration is key to innovation.
If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.
The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.
I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.
It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.
What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrow's ideas.
Every project is a race between your enthusiasm and your ability to get it done. Go fast. Don't slow down. A year from now, new things will interest you.
If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.
The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.
When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.