When innovation happens, it usually happens simultaneously
The concept that when you come up with an idea / innovation, it's often the case that one or more others also have that same idea too. Examples from history: light bulb, flight, steam engine. It happens because it usually was the right time for the idea, where a number of other ideas had come together to allow it.
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Related quotes:
- ❝ If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker
- ❝ development doesn’t happen in a vacuum — if you have a halfway decent idea, you can be sure that there are two or three teams somewhere in the world that independently came up with it and are working on the same thing