The world is full of people who have great, change-the-world ideas, and many of them desperately need someone, or something, to help realize their dreams. In the modern digital world, that help often comes in the form of an engineer.
But as engineers and entrepreneurs know all too well, highly technical individuals have more opportunities than they could possibly manage. As an engineer forced to choose between projects, it's easy to feel like you're not doing enough, or that you're a conduit for someone else's creativity. Generations past used engineers to solve problems like building the Empire State Building or Apollo 11. Today, engineering talent is being used to build someone else's car-sharing app.
To read the original article: Make Yourself Irrelevant: How Engineers Can Really Spur Innovation – ReadWrite
