Jake
@jake
writer, creative programmer, running Printernet and trying to make the internet more interesting.
Jake
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A Voyage Around Joni Mitchell
newyorker.com
Curiosity seems to be more individual than fastidiousness about truth or resistance to being told what to think. To the degree people have the latter two, they're usually pretty general, whereas different people can be curious about very different things. So perhaps curiosity is the compass here. Perhaps, if your goal is to discover novel ideas,... See more
Paul Graham • How to Think for Yourself
That one weird third variable problem nobody ever mentions: Conditioning on a collider
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"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." - Stephen King
One of the first things I ask people is “what have you tried?” Would you be surprised to learn that most have tried nothing?
- Paraphrased from a Tweet I saw
Hypothesis 1: The "golden age" hypothesisThe "golden age" hypothesis says there are one or more "golden ages" from the past that were superior at producing innovation compared to today. Perhaps understanding and restoring what worked about those "golden ages" would lead to an explosion in creativity today.