I wrote this a few weeks ago. I hope it sheds some light on your piece.

"The writer Peter Sims introduced the idea of little bets in his book by the same name. He demonstrated that innovators like Steve Jobs, Frank Gehry, and Chris Rock didn’t start with a big idea or plan out an entire project in advance. “They made a methodical series of little bets about what might be a good direction, learning critical information from lots of little failures.”

A feedback loop allowing them to “find unexpected avenues and arrive at extraordinary outcomes.”