A state in the Maker's Loop
The Optimiser
- Missing Imagination
- Has Invention
- Has Insight
Invention plus Insight is the Optimiser: building and learning, but only on what already exists. Ten percent better each round. Never a leap.
What it feels like
You ship, you measure, you improve. It's disciplined and it works. But every lap is a refinement of the same thing, and you can't remember the last time you built something that didn't exist before.
What's missing
Imagination. You're learning a lot, but only about what's already there.
One move to complete the loop
Spend one session on the question "what would make this whole thing unnecessary?" Take the strangest answer and build a scrappy version of it.
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