The Pebble and the Avalanche

Chapter FourFour Stages to Revolution: Devise, Interface, Accept, Evaluate

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Revolutions don’t just happen; they have to be planned and executed. In this chapter, I’m going to discuss strategies and tactics to help accomplish the four stages of disaggregation, which are:

1. Devise your innovation.
2. Interface the disaggregated pieces so that they continue to work.
3. Get interested parties to accept your innovation.
4. Evaluate the outcome of your work.

Devise

In this first stage, you analyze your problem, generate a solution, and then carry it out. The trick is to construct those key ideas that lead to a solution, and here are a few methods to help that process along—ways to think about disaggregation that lead to insights into the problem and its ...