interesting remark on innovation

I found this remark on the derLAB blog through a Bogost tweet:

“From this perspective, being ‘innovative’ then does not mean that you have to be the first to do something. It means that you need to treat everything as if it were new…look at it as if you’ve never seen it before and try to figure out how it might be useful to you or those around you. Sometimes these new things aren’t very useful by themselves but paired with other things become very interesting.”

This reminds me of something I read in an interview with management guru Peter Drucker, who said that usually the second person to do something is the one to make it work.

This could probably lead into some more general reflections, but I’m trying to enjoy lunch, while listening again to a wonderful CD sent to me by the German electronic musician FLORIAN HECKER (speaking of innovators).