Huge Problems and Moonshots
“If you’re not doing some things that are crazy, then you’re doing the wrong things.” - Larry Page, Google’s founder I saw this reference to the paradox of the huge problem in a blog by an ex-Apple designer: “A problem that feels sufficiently insurmountable will appear the product of natural law, to be accepted rather than challenged.” That is so true. If it’s insurmountable, we just learn to work with that as one of the constraints. And soon don’t even think of it as a constraint…and so even when the time is ripe and the tools available, we don’t attack the problem. Sort of like that elephant that could be held by a chain when he was young but doesn’t realize he could break it with ease when he is older! I guess that’s why the solution is eventually almost always found by an unknown guy, a non-specialist, someone too ignorant to know that it was an insurmountable problem! On the other hand, it’s the huge probl...