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Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker
The Joe Walker Podcast
Innovation in the Collective Brain
Innovators are not commodities that any old person can invent anything. You need brilliant people working in networks of sharing information and building on past advances to get true innovation. If we are reasonable banks, why do certain true ideas that seem so obvious in hindsight take so long to appear in the historical record? For example, arguably probability theory or simply the idea that all human beings are equal.
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