Share what you do profusely, because it will be remixed by others into something new, rich and strange.
Interpretation
Sharing your work contributes to collective innovation and enhances its value.
This quote highlights the importance of sharing one's creations with others. When individuals freely share their work, it not only benefits their own efforts but also allows for collaboration and remixing, resulting in new, innovative interpretations and variations that can enrich the original idea. In a communal environment, the act of sharing can lead to unforeseen developments and transformations of the initial concept.
In practice
During a conference, one might say this quote to encourage more open sharing of ideas among participants.
I find that creative streak I think often leads in programmers to be good predictors of where culture as a whole is going to go. And that is where I think I've tried over the years to in some ways use my customers as a filter or a predictor of where technology as a whole is going to go. Or where the world as a whole is going to go.
The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually everything we do. I imagine Lean Startup principles applied to government programs, to healthcare, and to solving the world's great problems. It's ultimately an answer to the question: How can we learn more quickly what works, and discard what doesn't?
An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started.
At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.
There is people who make stuff with words. There is people who make stuff with programs. And I really believe that that whole creative culture, people didn't realize how creative programming is. And anybody who's done it of course knows that not only is it creative, but it's incredibly absorbing.
All the creativity books in the world arenβt going to help you if youβre unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
Don't wait for permission to do something creative.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
There are some projects where you have to just start doing it, and, after a while, the show starts telling you what it wants to be. You put your spirit in and, after a while, something bigger takes over, and it turns out to be much more fun and creative than what it was at the beginning.
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