My Favorite Mistake
It was 1974 and Art Fry was spending his weekend singing for the local church choir. On this particular Sunday, Fry was dealing with a relatively boring problem: he couldn’t keep his bookmarks in place.
James Clear • Smart People Should Create Things
But leaving some room for generative error is important, too. Innovative environments thrive on useful mistakes, and suffer when the demands of quality control overwhelm them.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
As always, it appears commerce is the death of art. Decisions are based on what has already been sold to people already buying, not what could sell to people who didn’t even know they needed king crab with XO sauce chips in their life.
Jaya Saxena • Why Are American Chips So Boring?
What can we learn from the story of Art Fry? And is there something we can take away from this to make our lives and the world better?