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Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive - Matt Ridley
The Joe Walker Podcast
The Importance of Collaboration in Innovation
There's a website called Inocentive where firms or organizations can post problems and say, we've run up against a brick wall here. If you have and it works, we'll reward you. A study of the problems that have been solved on this website concluded that most of the solutions came from people outside the field. Teflon, Kevlar and the Post-it note are all examples of things discovered by people looking for something else. Who invented the computer? Right, there's not even a name out there that you can throw at me for that. It doesn't make sense to try and tell a single hero story about the invention of the computer.
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