Make it a good one
As if 2020 was so horrible. Well, it was.
Let's see, the greatest pandemic to hit the world's human population, transmitted easily, this clever virus dominates the older 1918 one:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html
(Fact checking)
Innovation will thrive
Out of necessity another four-letter word: NEED
That was Steve Job's brilliance. He looked at ordinary things that were common or accepted and wanted to create something that would solve a problem: being able to carry around all your music, listen to the radio, podcasts, e-meetings from the palm of your hand, and a telephone to boot!
Down the road, was someone who imagined "the road ahead" and set about to fix some of the most beneficial needs. Yep, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs emerged from the disasters during the 1980s.
Today, not knowing, strongly hunched that Jeff Bezoes was greatly influenced by their geniuses during his educational tenure at Princeton University, no less, during the 1980s. That emphasizes my point!
Overview
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Born: January 12, 1964 (age 56 years), Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Height: 1.71 m
Net worth: US$184 billion (December 2020)
Spouse: MacKenzie Scott (m. 1993–2019)
Children: 4
During the horrible recession of the 1980s emerged some significant technological changes. To move from main frame computers that lived in climate and temperature controlled areas to a desktop computer.
Anyone who used a computer in the 1980s cursed Microsoft for launching new versions that drove consumers out of NEED, not necessity. You had to be able to work on a computer. Computers need to be able to communicate, then they are put on a network.
The biggest needs drive the greatest results.
The best innovators fix those problems.
The greatest innovators fix the problem with a better solution. (idea, image, tech, education, science, medicine, business ......)
Some gifted with foresight, anticipate a need by understanding a certain industry which evolves around fulfilling a specific need. Sounds mixed up.
How did Jeff Bezoes anticipate how important getting essential items, food, etc. delivered to consumers home? Amazon has magically saved Christmas for folks isolating, quarantining or just keeping a low profile.
We grandparents get it. Something that skipped our kids' generation and beyond. Flipping through a catalogue that magically appeared in the fall, for anyone to flip through and imagining one of everything or a game where you had to choose only one thing from a page! Rich beyond imagination.
InstaCart gets it. Uber Eats will likely outshine Uber drivers in short order. Skip the Dishes has surged the popularity of just ordering in dinner. Or lunch or the munchies.
Slow down and cherish what is important now. Then go on to fix what needs fixing. Innovatively perhaps.
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