Combinatorial Creativity
everything is a remix of what came before
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Combinatorial Creativity
“You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture.”
A quote from Louise Bourgeois
Went down a rabbit hole for cross-industry innovations (when one industry borrows from another).
Here are 8 gems.
1. James Dyson made a bagless vacuum after seeing how sawmills used cyclone force to eject sawdust. https://t.co/jre4FCdaVj
From Jorge Luis Borges:
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
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
sari and • 30 cards
It’s okay to borrow ideas, but you have to make them your own.
