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Someone who breaks things on purpose, early enough to call it vision.
means A person who introduces new ideas, methods, or inventions, especially ones that change how things are done.
from From Latin innovare — in- 'into' plus novare 'to make new,' itself from novus 'new.' The verb entered English in the 1500s meaning simply 'to renew' or 'to introduce novelty,' often with a suspicious edge, since tampering with established order was long viewed as dangerous rather than admirable. The agent noun 'innovator' carried that same whiff of troublemaking for centuries — only in more recent times did it get rebranded as a compliment.
- vs inventor
- inventor makes the thing, innovator makes it matter
- timing
- wrong decade and you are just weird
- survivorship bias
- failed ones are called delusional instead
- secret skill
- stealing ideas and pretending it was synthesis