The (unfortunate) state of product ideation | by Arjun Bali | uWaterloo Voice | Medium
2022-06-03T05:43:47.419Z
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today’s world has fallen far too deep into the intellectual pleasure of combinatorics than engineering from first principles. In other words, our ratio of dot connectors to dot creators is far out of balance, and this has long run technological and societal consequences.
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the short run incentives of cash and recognition are infinitely more conducive to the creation of polished products than those with long term development cycles. The result? Uber for X, and Airbnb for Y.
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The problem that comes with adopting the hackathon timescale is that it disincentivizes us from solving even harder problems using the now easier-to-achieve constituent parts. Instead, it provides a literal breeding ground of API matchmaking.
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When you think as big as the things around you, there is a defined upper limit on the real technological progress we can make.