Simple ideas are powerful, often overlooked
Malcolm Maclane
- shipping trucks congested highways, wanted solution
Shipping containers
- Initially did not work
- tried to implement without designing for the containers
- why try fitting rectangular container in ship hull?
- multiple people tried, failed
- only feasible after vertical integration
- perspective of shipper does not matter, only the root issue of transporting from point A to point B
- created positive feedback loop
- advantages obvious
- retrofitting, building of
- new harbors -> new ships -> more containers
- made shipping cheaper -> increase volume
- Classic [[S-type Loonshot|S-type loonshot]]
- created new indusstry
- not organized by category/type of product
Confidence inIdeas about how things are done is shaped by what has worked in the past