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#107 Matt Ridley: Infinite Innovation

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Pencil Is Trying to Understand Its Origins

We all work for each other. An tiny, tiny fraction of your effort ends up making a big contribution to other people's well tess. It's a magnificent piece of collaborative, distributed intelligence that we've achieved this way. And just to make the story even funnier, in a way, when i first started thinking about us getting specialized in what we produced so that we could be more diversified in what we consumed,. i the penny dropped when i was reading a wonderful book called second nature by a gag named heim ofe. Can you tell me if you've written anything else about it, or where you got the idea?

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