Over a decade ago but under two decades ago, larger companies discovered employees didn't like the word change, so change was rebranded as innovation.
Also, over a decade ago but under two decades ago, larger companies also discovered shareholders didn't like the work creativity, so creativity was less re-branded, more cast aside for the noble sounding innovation.
Now we have innovation. Process improvement and incremental change that has existed since before Edward Deming and others started to formalise something, though certainly a modern approach to statistics is useful, and has been under continuous change, and re-branding, since.
I feel the examples in the article, the formerly-known-as 'cutting out the middle man' now re-branded as innovation (SIPOC-focused re-engineering?) or using cheaper cuts of meat/produce (which chefs and kitchens have sought to do since cooking became mainstream in pre-history times) aptly summarise how sweepingly all-encompassing, and correspondingly vapid, the term has become.
Not only it's not optional, it's a requirement.
Anyone who does creative work knows ROUTINE is the beginning of all.
Of course the exception to this are old-school rock-stars (and the new-school rock-stars: DJ's & Producers). Not jealous of their life expectancy though.
Routine is not a requirement for creative work of any kind.
A lot of creative people I know go through cycles and do just fine.
I’m on the extreme end of that due to being bipolar. I have days of extreme productivity and days of none. Likewise with creative ability. They don’t always line up all the time. I can be creative and depressed, or hypomanic but unfocused.
Even with medication, routine does not (and never will) exist for me. Learning to accept chaos and work with it instead of against it was the best thing I ever did for myself.
If I can be creative, I ride it until I need to pull back and let things settle. If I’m not, I work on more boring things like refactoring, testing, and documentation. If I can’t focus at all, I take time off to reduce stress until I recover.
I strongly agree. For instance like most start-up company do automation website that provide the automation services (e.g. send WhatsApp message at certain algorithm matched). These days companies just slapped the terminology like "artificial intelligence", "blockchain" and "web3" thinking they are innovative , personally I think they just portrait themselves don't even know what they doing to begin with.
> These days companies just slapped the terminology like "artificial intelligence", "blockchain" and "web3" thinking they are innovative
Some startups actually only throw around these terms to get more funding. They may get asked to do more "innovation" with AI when the core system doesn't really need any, so they push more buzzwords into the marketing and maybe tinker a bit with ML on the side.
yeah, I have a theory that "goodness of product" is inversely proportional to[(number of buzzwords squared) times (no. of emojis + font size on homepage)]
it doesn't have to be though, theres a lot of progress in explainable AI, causal inference etc. but a lot of software products like let's say Instagram make you have to trust their AI because they don't show you the metrics, training data or really anything at all. the company is a black box. even if they select posts to show you by Minecraft chicken randomisers you'd not know
I journal my ideas everyday meticulously, I journalled over 450+ thoughts. I use GitHub as a blog. Usually some improvement of how computers could work related to integration, parallelisation, performance, devops and optimisation. (See my profile for links)
Whats on the click bait check list today? Not written by a technical person, unneeded apple reference and four paragraphs before the subheading point is mentioned.
