This is a huge intellectual crater in tech thinking, one that I've encountered personally. There's a frequently held belief that they are always first to an idea. No desire to question priors, engage with existing literature, assume epistemic humility, etc. https://twitter.com/tomscocca/status/1390138782951907335

This is why VCs periodically "invent" the concept of public transport (privatized, in their case), have no regard for incumbent industries/technologies, and why disruption is so valued. Everything is a personal epiphany, Athena produced straight from Zeus' brain.

Last year, a tech CEO asked me to ghostwrite some articles for him about a "new" political system he had conceived, which sounded basically like a tech company town. There's an ego trip in thinking you're first to an idea. He seemed totally sincere.

Planned obsolescence but for ideas, a recurrent eternal sunshine of the mind, making everything newly discoverable again. Could be a nice way to live.