Steve Wozniak

That's because they already live in a grayscale world, knowing what it is to have a hunch or a vision about what can be, even though it doesn't exist yet.

Plus they're able to calculate solutions that have partial values in between all and none.

Third, on coming up with something new Wozniak writes, the only way to come up with something new, something world changing is to think outside of the constraints everyone else has.

You have to think outside the artificial limits everyone else has already set.

You have to live in the grayscale world, not in the black and white one, if you're going to come up with something no one else has thought of before.

Fourth, nothing good has ever been invented by a committee.

Wozniak writes, most investors and engineers I've met are like me.

They're shy and they live in their heads.

They're almost like artists.

In fact, the very best of them are artists.

And artists work best alone, best outside of corporate environments, best where they can control an invention's design without a lot of other people designing it for marketing or some other committee.

I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee because the committee would never agree on it.

Why do I say engineers are like artists?

Engineers often strive to do things more perfectly than even they think is possible.

Fifth, work alone.

Wozniak writes, if you're that rare engineer who's an inventor and also an artist, I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take.

That advice, work alone.

When you're working for a large structured company, there's much less leeway to turn clever ideas into revolutionary new products or product features by yourself.

Money is unfortunately a god in our society, and those who finance your efforts are business people with lots of experience at organizing contracts that define who owns what and what you can do on your own.

But you probably have little business experience, know-how, or acumen, and it'll be hard to protect your work or deal with all that corporate nonsense.