1st and Worst
Simon Dudley
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Recently, I’ve noticed a few companies in the video space start to lead with the idea that they invented everything. In most cases, these statements are laughably false, and they annoy me.?
No one in 2023 can reasonably claim to have invented management applications, or App stores, or rip off other companies designs and claim them to be a new paradigm , to do so makes those making the claims seem naive, foolish or dishonest.
Those claims are not only obviously false, but they are also entirely irrelevant.
The original of anything is almost always the worst version. Why would anyone want to claim that “prize”??
The Wright Brothers' early aircraft were incredible feats of engineering, but do you want to use one on your next flight? Do you want the first car? TV? Heart surgery? Probably not.
Certainly, innovation is good and moves the industry forward, but in the real world, clients are looking to have a meeting with other humans; the technology should be so good, so sophisticated, that it blends into the background. The meeting is what matters, not the technology.
Technologists can get rather carried away sometimes about their own inventions. I’d recommend everyone calm down a bit and remember we’re meant to be solving clients' business problems.
So next time someone tries to tell you that their company was the first company to do a certain thing.
Squint a bit and ask, so what?
About the author
Simon Dudley likes to think about stuff. He believes in the future, that taxation is the cost of civilization and that we're all in this* together. Simon has spent 35 years at work trying to out think, not out work the problem. Sometimes it's worked. Originally from London, Simon has lived in lots of different places including Australia, Southern California, Texas, and is very happy now living in Colorado..
*When "this" means everything.
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1 年Simon I’d love to know who has you wound up to the point of writing this one :). Being around for as long as we have I love watching others take credit for things I know are not true, because I witnessed those events myself.
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1 年Good article and makes sense. However, human beings have endless interest where/when things start. The family tree, automobiles, even airplanes. Even more so, we love to see the progression or obsolescence. Who doesn’t love the History Channel? “The men who built America.” Right?
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1 年Nice pic Simon, even the Wright Brothers were beaten by Richard Pearse of New Zealand for the first powered manned flight!
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