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We're not innovating, we're just forgetting slower

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139 points obscurette | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 14:13 UTC | HN request time: 1.225s | source
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raincole ◴[04 Jul 25 16:04 UTC] No.44465682[source]▶
> They can deploy applications to Kubernetes clusters but couldn’t design a simple op-amp circuit

And the ones who can design a op-amp circuit can't manufacture the laminate their circuit is going to be printed on. And the ones who know how to manufacture the laminate probably doesn't know how to refine or synthesize the material from the minerals. And probably none of them knows how to grow and fertilize the crop to feed themselves.

No one knows everything. Collaboration has been how we manage complexity since we were biologically a different species than H. sapiens.

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1. 9rx ◴[04 Jul 25 16:48 UTC] No.44466026[source]▶
> And probably none of them knows how to grow and fertilize the crop to feed themselves.

As a farmer and software developer, with a electronics hobby (and it being a part of the job of being a farming these days), I can check off growing crops, op-amp circuits, and Kubernetes deployments.

I don't own, or have reasonable access to, the necessary capital for laminating circuit boards and synthesizing minerals.

> No one knows everything.

But, really, access to capital is the real limiting factor. Getting to know something isn't usually all that difficult in and of itself, but if you have no way to do it then you're never going to get to know it. Collaboration is less important to efficiency than optimizing use of capital. Its just that we don't have many good ideas about how to optimize use of capital without also introducing collaboration.