Combinatorial Creativity
everything is a remix of what came before
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Combinatorial Creativity
In 1985, Nike held a 24-hour shoe design contest. Nike was struggling. Their stock dropped 50%. They had to lay off people. Adidas, Converse, and Reebok were all selling more shoes. So in a panicked attempt to find creative talent, Nike held a shoe design contest. The winner was a corporate architect named Tinker Hatfield. “Two days after the... See more
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Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.
It’s okay to borrow ideas, but you have to make them your own.
“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”
― Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer
Everything Is Connected
exploring how there are no fields, topics, or silos - everything is connected
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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.