> On Feb 22, 2021, at 4:43 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 20:33, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> +10.  Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.  Incremental progress benefits from amplifying feedback. An absence of progress can’t.
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> The problem with this is that it leads to a rather toxic final conclusion...

/A/ problem with this is that it /can/ lead to a rather toxic final conclusion...

You can’t prove a negative.  It isn’t always the case.  And even the classic example of the Learning Research Group/Systems Concept Group at PARC going blue plane and producing Smalltalk is a bit of a myth.  There was still incremental progress here.  Smalltalk-72 was written in BASIC.  ‘74 evolved into ‘76 evolved into ‘80.  The hardware evolved from the Alto to the Dorado.

So this whole idea that the only way one gets to the future is by making giant leaps is, frankly, baloney.  The part of it which *isn’t* baloney is the part if it about how marketing can cause a bad idea to drown out a good idea (VHS vs Betamax etc).  But that’s not about incrementalism; that’s about capitalism.

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