Creation happens through analogy and recombination. Uber for x sounds like a corny VC-forced language, but it’s a useful way to think. What if we took what was working here, and applied it there. That’s why my favorite creators are big remixers. David Chang. Quentin Tarantino. Donald Glover. Home Depot was a remix of Costco applied to hardware stores. Costco and Walmart borrowed relentlessly from Fedmart (in fact, that’s where Walmart got its name.) Joe Coloumbe borrowed relentlessly to create Trader Joe’s.
It matches a thought I was recently trying to explain to a friend, for how to think about things like Myers-Briggs and other "personality types" systems. Like an analogy, they aren't precise and they don't get into the full detail of reality. As a result, they can be useful to open up unconsidered possibilities and realize that other people experience the world differently from you. But they shouldn't be used to close down possibilities, like "you're an INFP, so you can't work in sales".
Thanks, I like this framing a lot.
It matches a thought I was recently trying to explain to a friend, for how to think about things like Myers-Briggs and other "personality types" systems. Like an analogy, they aren't precise and they don't get into the full detail of reality. As a result, they can be useful to open up unconsidered possibilities and realize that other people experience the world differently from you. But they shouldn't be used to close down possibilities, like "you're an INFP, so you can't work in sales".