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On one contract where several people
had to access data at a common location
in a plastic injection plant, I offered an
outlandish solution. Understand I know
about file sharing, multiple accesses, client
server cooperation, and all that. What
this company wanted would not be satisfied
with even the present technology of today.
I presented the solution to the Director of
Engineering. He told me it wouldn't work. I
told him that he simply had no choice.
Also, we had one month to ship the
product. He told me to go ahead and do it.
Then he told me not to bother him again
and he slammed his office door.
I got to work and applied this ridiculous
method. I had two other people working
with me all night long. In a week it was
working. When the director saw it working
he took the design manual out of my hand
and said, "That will be all, we don't need you
anymore." That system lived within that
company for many years and was sold to
several of their customers.
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The reaction of the people involved here
describes the pressure of those
concerned. I did much more work for
them after that project.
Conclusion
I am not one of those people that put
something before me then sleep on it. I
only make progress when I focus effort on
getting whatever I want. Having
understanding of everything that is already
there is important. The other valuable
talent is to come up with anything no matter
how odd it is. Getting something to work with
is the real art. Evaluating is not as difficult
and can be done by simply turning the
crank. In general look for cross
technologies. You may be developing a
magic trick. If you are a metal worker or
a master at chess; there may be some
technique there that applies to magic.
Strangely, creative thinking is like any
other endeavor. The more you practice it
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