Shay Banon on Innovation
Some great wisdom imparted by Shay Banon (creator of Elasticsearch). Be bored. To promote innovation. Open source and building a critical mass. Be committed. You need to care for it now; IRC, forums, negative feedback, bugs. The benevolent dicator model (BDM) versus the democracy with a leader model. Be distributed. Choose a useful (and normally hard) problem to solve. Best way to learn is to actually build something. Double down on passion. Recruit passionate people (e.g. story about the guy who paid for Elastic training off his own back). Videos are for collaboration. Simple things, should be simple. Not easy though. Hierarchy matters. Humans can’t make decisions in groups. IT is obsessed with whats next. You only need to look backwards for answers.