Building without permission....

[Kirkhill]

Research suggests the generation of self-taught workers now retiring is the last generation for whom autodidactic learning carried genuine economic power — they could enter industries without credentials, rise without degrees, and build without permi

The insurance executive who watched his high school-educated mentor outperform every MBA replacement discovered a troubling truth: the self-made experts who built America's infrastructure through grit and intuition are vanishing, replaced by a credential-obsessed system that mistakes...

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This kind of fits into the discussion about multiple drone suppliers but only one vehicle supplier.

Building without permission. But also building without a manual. Building without a rule book.
Free form thinking.

Being forced to strip things back to first principles when the rule book no longer applies.

There always has to be a bit of room for mutations. Even if 98% of your needs are met off one production line, shouldn't there somebody doing the other thing? Just in case there is a better idea, or the situation changes and you need to pivot in a hurry.

You can't write a spec for that.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

ISO whatever objects at you trying to break their rice bowel.

 

[lenaitch]

Works better in governance or business practices. If I'm having a house built, I'd prefer the folks have credentials and qualifications.

 

[Haggis]

Works better in governance or business practices. If I'm having a house built, I'd prefer the folks have credentials and qualifications.

So, would your insurance company.

 

[Brad Sallows]

The innovation space often enough is populated by people who neither attempted the credential ladder or abandoned it early to do something real.