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Alex Roberts

30 May 2017

Innovation for its own sake

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Have you ever heard the warnings “we shouldn’t innovate for the sake of it” and “innovation isn’t an end in itself”? In this somewhat contrarian post I’d like to suggest a different perspective, one that…
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