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Remix Culture: Jumpstarting Creativity
humans aren’t good at making things from scratch. our true genius, he thinks, lies in the art of taking something and evolving it, responding to it, combining it.
the idea that creativity is combinatorial, that nothing is entirely original, that everything builds on what came before, and that we create by taking existing pieces of inspiration, knowledge, skill and insight that we gather over the course of our lives and recombining them into incredible new creations.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Creation becomes consumption
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And that is the idea that creativity is combinatorial, that nothing is entirely original, that everything builds on what came before, and that we create by taking existing pieces of inspiration, knowledge, skill and insight that we gather over the course of our lives and recombining them into incredible new creations.