The word innovation has been hollowed out by overuse. It has come to mean something close to disruption, and disruption has come to mean speed, scale, and the willingness to break things without staying long enough to understand what broke. I want to recover an older meaning, where innovation is closer in spirit to gardening than to demolition.
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