What Bryan Caplan thinks about innovation

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1. 12 Mar 2025

   Our readingThe way to find useful ideas is to search for useful ideas, not to follow whatever fascinates you and hope it turns out useful.

   Their wordsYet common sense insists the best way to discover useful ideas is to search for useful ideas — not to search for whatever fascinates you and pray it turns out to be useful.

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