17 connected korrents · 17 moments from 8 Jan 2013 to 27 Sept 2026.
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Memory research is broadening to how memory shapes future thinking, problem solving, decision making and creativity, and the trend is likely to continue
Last stated 21 Feb 2019 · 8 years ago
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Daniel Schacter
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Same subject: creativity
A contest between five paid firms is not the way to get good creative work.
Last stated 14 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Susan Kare
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Same subject: creativity
A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
Last stated c. 1959
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Isaac Asimov
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Same subject: creativity
A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness
Last stated 8 Jan 2013 · 14 years ago
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Daniel Dennett
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Same subject: creativity
A too-faithful remake of an existing work squanders creative effort that could have made something new.
Last stated 4 Sept 2026 · 4 weeks ago
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Matt Webb
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Same subject: creativity
AI has lowered the barrier enough that non-technical people with strong ideas, taste, and cultural awareness can build successful businesses.
Last stated 7 Sept 2026 · 4 weeks ago
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Pieter Levels
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Same subject: creativity
AI progress is jagged: models are becoming superhuman at math and software engineering while remaining far weaker at intuition, creativity, and other forms of human reasoning.
Last stated 10 Sept 2026 · 3 weeks ago
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Nathan Lambert
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Same subject: creativity
AI should be used to advance understanding of the universe and improve human capabilities.
Last stated 26 Sept 2026 · a week ago
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Guillermo Rauch
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Same subject: creativity
AI-assisted writing creates an illusion of greater creativity while actually reducing the originality of the ideas expressed.
Last stated 22 Jun 2026 · 3 months ago
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Adam Grant
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Same subject: innovation
"Lots of anonymous people worked it out by trial and error" is never the real story of an invention: on closer investigation, identifiable people always turn out to be responsible.
Last stated 25 Oct 2023 · 3 years ago
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Anton Howes
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Same subject: innovation
A business can have market fit, real advantages, and sustained effort behind a hard product and still fail if it doesn't give customers a strong enough reason to switch from what they already use.
Last stated 2 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Justin Jackson
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Same subject: innovation
A capability existing is not the same as a capability being absorbed: how fast a technology changes the world is not set by how fast the technology improves.
Last stated 21 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago
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Ruxandra Teslo
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Same subject: ideas vs execution
A computational discovery platform does not make a biotech fast, because the thousand other steps of drug development are still the bottleneck.
Last stated 17 Sept 2024 · 2 years ago
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Alex Telford
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Same subject: ideas vs execution
A film's script and direction must be of a sufficient quality to support its complex plot.
Last stated 27 Sept 2026 · 6 days ago
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John Scalzi
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Same subject: ideas vs execution
A good idea often fails to spread not for lack of merit but because no convenient way exists to implement it.
Last stated 7 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Scott Rao
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Same subject: curiosity
A slot machine triggers the brain’s learning and curiosity pathways while teaching nothing, and that one-way exchange is what makes it contemptuous of the player.
Last stated 3 Jul 2013 · 13 years ago
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Raph Koster
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Same subject: curiosity
AI tooling has not compressed the gap between great and average engineers: it is still two or three times, and for the same reasons as before — curiosity and appetite for the bleeding edge.
Last stated 1 Apr 2026 · 6 months ago
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Thuan Pham
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Same subject: curiosity
American transit agencies stay expensive out of incuriosity: the practices that would fix them are written in languages nobody in the room reads.
Last stated 12 Jan 2023 · 4 years ago
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Alon Levy