Synthesizing is a form of putting things from two different fields together.

Aesthetic creativity includes designing for joy, as in the case of the bandages, or for simplicity, as in the case of train timetables and elegant clocks.

take. She was in the weeds.

“We never lost hope that there is a path forward. We just have to find it.” Their mantra was to “shine your light and walk to the end of what you can see” and then to keep going again after that.

Leonardo wrote, “If you stay doggedly at the work you will deceive yourself.”

You can also think about aspects of your metaphor in terms of currency conversion rates. What I mean is that usually you can do things that are a little outside your comfort zone, but they will take more of your energy. It’s like converting money into a currency at a not very advantageous exchange rate—well over a unit of energy for a unit of

It doesn’t matter just that you have a brilliant idea or a gorgeous design object. You also have a responsibility to try to make those creative works exist in the economic world. Anytime you find yourself walking one of those diagonals, you are taking on the work of a producer.

One of the very real ethical responsibilities of living in a world that is so much more specialized is the responsibility that falls on the expert to explain his or her field. To what extent, as a specialist, do you have a responsibility to make your field—and the important questions in your field that concern everyone’s welfare—comprehensible?

how to construct a life of originality and meaning within the real constraints of the market economy.