Combinatorial Creativity
everything is a remix of what came before
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Combinatorial Creativity
“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer
"the things that inspire me the most are the intersection points, kind of intersections between two things that were never intersected before... Steve Jobs did this fantastically with calligraphy and computers, James Terrell with astronomy and web architecture..."
Josh at the Browser Company on the Moth Minds podcast
“You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture.”
A quote from Louise Bourgeois
everything is a remix
creativity is defined by the uniqueness and appeal of the combination of elements
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Danny Meyer the restaurateur has called ABCD: “always be collecting dots, so that you can always be connecting dots.” Dots or breadcrumbs, if your whole life is oriented around that collection, which mine is, then you're always preparing.
Frederik Gieschen • A Compulsive Search for the Most Interesting People with Patrick O'Shaughnessy - Compound Manual
Everything Is Connected
exploring how there are no fields, topics, or silos - everything is connected
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Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.