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MACHINES SHOULD WORK, PEOPLE SHOULD THINK

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By Dave Trott
| davetrott.co.uk
If you’ve ever wondered what flying on Concorde was like, I flew on it once, coming back from New York. It flew at Mach 2, that’s twice the speed of sound, but it didn’t feel any different. All I thought was, the windows were too small and there weren’t any movies. But one thing did impress me, when the pilot told us that we were flying faster than a rifle bullet. I couldn’t even see a rifle bullet, but I was travelling faster than one. That was an amazing fact. Hard for the human mind to grasp.
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GET THE COMPETITION TO DO YOUR ADVERTISING

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By Dave Trott
| davetrott.co.uk
When Uber launched in London, in 2012, there were already well-developed transport systems. Aside from trains and buses, there were 3,000 private car-hire companies. Just one of those, Addison Lee, had 4,500 cars and turned over £90m a year. And the ability to order a cab over a smartphone wasn’t unique, Hailo had 9,000 black cabs available on its app. All of which made London a near-impossible market to break into. Sure enough, the early days were very tough.
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REAL CREATIVITY IS UPSTREAM

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By Dave Trott
| davetrott.co.uk
Most of us have two kinds of screwdriver at home, a standard type (the head looks like a minus sign) and a Phillips (the head looks like a plus sign). Why is that? Originally all screw-heads were just a simple straight slot. But in 1932 John Thompson invented a better system, the cross-head screw and screwdriver. But if Thompson invented it, why isn’t it named after him, why isn’t it called a Thompson Screwdriver? It’s because Thompson had no idea how to market it.
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