Paul Graham on Doing Things Right by Accident
That reminds me of this amazing talk called Why Greatness Cannot be Planned:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXQPL9GooyI</a><p>TLDV: Innovation is not driven by narrowly focused heroic effort. We'd be wiser and the outcomes would be better if instead we whole-heartedly embraced serendipitous discovery and playful creativity. We can potentially achieve more by following a non-objective yet still principled path, after throwing off the shackles of objectives, metrics, and mandated outcomes.<p>This also matches my experience 100%. All my best discoveries are accidental.