Founder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters treat it as a thought-provoking talk on invention versus innovation, and cite it in discussions of software complexity and startups.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

DEMO

Topic

invention versus innovation

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

13

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Alan Kay spoke about it length in many of his talks. For example: [VIDEO] Excellent video. I highly recommend everyone working in or with IT to see it. I think he is right. PCs and smartphone are mostly recreating thing from the past, and not …

• >He thinks that you can just design something nice from whole cloth and people will use it. Because that's exactly what they did in Xerox Park, many times over. >That's why his designs aren't deployed. No comment. >But he's basically confusing research and engineering, as …

• This slow reading idea also jives with Alan Kay's observation of "Slow Deep Thinking" which allowed us to have massive & non-incremental leaps into the future. [LINK] Video by Kay which goes into more depth: [VIDEO]