The new ideas and true innovations are more likely to come from the outcasts, weirdos, and loners than from the good students.

Do you think?

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."

I found a story about this location and its changing face in a local newspaper. It had lasted more than 30 years as a single successful restaurant the whole time, then fell into disfavor. The worker-at-lunch customer base changed as the area changed. Several businesses that supplied the restaurant with customers moved.

There were 20 years of next to nothing in that location. But in the 1990s, the neighborhood came back. It became trendy (think of Soho in New York, or the East of Market Street area in San Francisco). Traffic patterns changed, local businesses changed. Now it seems like a good location.

Or so it seemed to the people who put a new restaurant in there in 2003, and the ones who put a different new restaurant there in 2006, and, again, the ones who found it vacant again this year and have just established another new restaurant there.

I don’t claim to know the restaurant business, but I wonder … do certain locations work, or not work, regardless of updates and traffic and parking? Is it a bad idea to establish were others have failed?

If the video here doesn't show up -- technical details -- the link is Picturing Excess. Or, alternatively, here is the video, from Chris Jordan, speaking at TED.