05/08/2023
Sometimes, you fall so that others could run
Try to read that again but this time slowly
Today, we have people arguing about iPhone vs Android but did you know the story behind this innovation?
Have you heard of "pocket crystal" and how the great innovation died? You probably didn't know about it because, unlike iPhone and Android, it died. But without the invention of pocket Crystal who knows if we probably might be using a touchscreen smartphone today?
Pocket crystal was birthed and failed so that iPhone could come alive a decade after.
That's not all...
Today, most of the workers who worked on pocket crystal went ahead to build greater products like iPad, Ebay, iPhone, Android, and Apple Watch, Others became executives at Google, and CTO of the United state government.
I wonder what must be going on in their mind (I mean the employees for the pocket crystal) when they were failing.
Questions like
1. Why didn't I resign earlier? Instead of wasting 10 years of my life.
2. Why can't we get it right?
Little did they know that they were failing forward.
Imagine what the failure must have taught them.
Imagine the experience and lessons learned.
To you reading this,
I hope this gives you a reason to not give up on life yet. The dots might as well connect later.
Who knows!
Cheers
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Day 39
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