am i an innovator?

I think I am.  

Grey asked me to watch a documentary the other day.  About a guy building community.  I was a little hyper focused on "what did he invent?"  - which might have been a bit unfair.    

And then I directed the question to myself.  What did I invent?

So I kinda felt the urge to make a list.

Before permaculture:

  BananaCom (#1 com software in 1995)
  CodeRanch.com (I won three jolt awards)
  predecessor to google earth (only mine could task the space craft to take pics)
 
After permaculture:

  pebble style rocket mass heaters
  willow feeder
  wheaton eco scale
  skip/pep
  wofati
  heat bubble
  permies.com
  i made movies about rocket mass heaters and gardening
  Building a Better World book
  permaculture playing cards

stuff i didn't invent, but have a lot of ... uh ... obnoxious variant opinions

  permaculture
  hugelkultur
  light bulbs
  energy conservation
  raising chickens


... huh ...  i thought the list would be bigger ...

Good list and it would appear that you are indeed an innovator.

I would love to have had access to the Google Earth predecessor!

Don’t sell yourself short! Those might be your legacy innovations, but what about the hundreds of times you’ve done something with no research and then later discover it was a thing . . . (This is possibly more common amongst people born before widespread internet usage, smart phones and youtube.) Actually, I bet there are times when you deliberately go out and do something new and don’t research just to see what you discover. Well, at least that’s what I do which accounts for me spending way too much time, and sometimes failing, BB’s. I think innovation is a fundamental human skill, sure the woman who invented the flint axe was an extraordinary innovator but so where the people who then used that axe for a hundred different things.

I just watched ‘The Billion Dollar Code’ . . . A mixture of fact and fiction about a German company suing google for stealing their code which became the engine to run Google earth . . .

maybe rolly shelves count in there somewhere

My satellite tasking predecessor to google earth - 1999



Define an area of interest and look at all the pretty pictures

 

and here is bananacom

bootcamp?

more like ideas than innovations

husp
the story of gert
independent/consnsus/dictator hybrid
the permaculture click
forage gardening

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Yes! I am reminded of your "Increasing the Velocity of Permaculture" Keynote at Permaculture Voices. I feel there are about three ways a person can go when they are an innovator:

1. A person does a cool thing and everyone says it is wrong or will not work. Then they stop and never try again.

2. A person does a cool thing and is ground down by the negativity of other. Then they stop talking to other people about what they are doing.

3. A person does a cool thing and tells people than give them negativity to f*** off. Then goes on to show that it works and other want to learn how to do the cool thing, adding awesomeness.

Hey Paul,

You are an innovator but do not sell yourself short your also a catalyst!

You got your pat on the back now go do more!