"Some aspects of the impact generation process are in your control, and some aren’t. The world (i.e. the environment) isn’t in your control. Neither are the outcomes you get from trying things – remember the intention/impact gap. However, generating ideas, making things, taking risks, and the people you choose to work with are." -- This observation is also true when developing internal tools in the company. The ecosystem you develop will change the behaviors of people who use it (and who you'll hire to leverage that), which will change the desired ecosystem and so forth, and so on. Vishal Kapur encourages us all to ask "Answerable questions" and experiment.
> The best minds of our generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.<p>> – Jeffrey Hammerbacher<p>> I disagree.<p>OK, thanks, done; no need to read any further.