Form-Function Attribution Bias
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Doug Evans spent 1,200 days in San Francisco building a juicer. Twelve prototypes. Custom-milled aluminum. Wi-Fi connectivity. An app…
Redundancy
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Oren Jacob watched the files vanish. He stood in Larry Cutler's office at Pixar's Richmond, California…
Predator-Prey Dynamics
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Umberto D'Ancona spread Adriatic Sea catch records across his desk at the University of Rome. Ink-smudged columns from…
Infinite Game
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Paul Cézanne was sixty-seven when a thunderstorm caught him painting Mont Sainte-Victoire. October 15, 1906. He had worked the fields…
Satisficing
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Isaac Asimov sat at his electric typewriter by seven-thirty each morning, a backup machine in the closet for the day…
Emergence
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John Conway placed a black Go stone on a board in the mathematics common room at Cambridge. He placed a…
Activation Energy
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Twyla Tharp stepped out of her Manhattan apartment at 5:30 in the morning, wearing leg warmers, sweatshirts, and a…
Stocks and Flows
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In March 1836, Chapman and Hall printed one thousand copies of the first installment of The Pickwick Papers. They sold…
Novelty Search (vs. Objective-Based Search)
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In October 1959, Brion Gysin pressed a Stanley blade through mount board in his room at the Beat Hotel in…
G.I. Joe Fallacy
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge knew exactly what was killing him.
In 1800, a doctor prescribed him laudanum for rheumatic pain. Sixteen…
Boden's Three Types of Creativity
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On September 26, 1944, a Black woman walked into Decca Records' New York studio with an electric guitar. Sister…
Semmelweis Reflex
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In September 2004, Anne Rice logged onto Amazon and read the reviews of her latest novel, Blood Canticle. Readers complained…