
"Communication Really Happens in the Carpool..."

Looking backwards, it’s striking how unevenly distributed progress has been in the past...the discoveries that came to elevate standards of living for everyone arose in comparatively tiny geographic pockets of innovative effort.
Packy McCormick • Conjuring Scenius — Packy McCormick
Steve Jobs on happy accidents: "Process makes you more efficient. But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem. It’s ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has
... See moreWe should foster serendipity—the random collision of ideas.