Combinatorial Creativity
everything is a remix of what came before
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Combinatorial Creativity
Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.
“You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture.”
A quote from Louise Bourgeois
Everything Is Connected
exploring how there are no fields, topics, or silos - everything is connected
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“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 a Remix Remastered (2015 HD)
youtube.comIt also helps to travel in topic space. You'll have more new ideas if you explore lots of different topics, partly because it gives the angle grinder more surface area to work on, and partly because analogies are an especially fruitful source of new ideas.