If a bird is all you’ve ever seen—no planes, nor helicopters—how would you think about human flight?
Would you think it impossible?
Would you think we’d need wings too?
Few people imagined a stiff wing with a propeller, but they were the ones who flew.
This leap is a pattern that has repeated itself in other innovations.
In a world of horse-drawn carriages, it took guts to imagine a machine that, with the turn of a key and a bit of fuel, unlocked the power of 200 horses.
In a world of exponential information growth, it took guts build a way to index and search every page and word on the internet.
In a world of fiat currency, it’s taking guts for people to build a decentralised financial system that doesn’t depend on any government for legitimacy.
What future innovations will require the same level of guts?
How do we approach building that world if a bird is all we’ve ever seen?