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A few notes on innovation
I’ve just enjoyed reading The Medici Effect after picking it up on impulse a week or so ago. Frans Johansson’s 2006 book looks at how innovation is enhanced when people from different disciplines come together to tackle problems. He calls it the intersection. When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines or cultures, you [...]
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How history and news can work together
I’m breaking my own rule. Until recently I’d sworn off subscribing to magazines because too often they pile up in a corner unread and mock me. But I’ve decided to subscribe to Lapham’s Quarterly. Partly because it’s a quarterly and I reckon I can handle four issues a year. Partly because the magazine’s sturdy enough [...]
‘Everything is a remix’ and other thoughts on innovation