Combinatorial Creativity
everything is a remix of what came before
sari and
Combinatorial Creativity
It 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.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
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
"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
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
everything is a remix
creativity is defined by the uniqueness and appeal of the combination of elements
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Innovators are usually synthesizers—they synthesize everything they know and add their own personal talents, and out comes something new.