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At X, Google’s “moonshot factory”: Derek Thompson, “Google X and the Science of Radical Creativity,” The Atlantic,
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
“Dunbar's research suggests one vaguely reassuring thought: even with all the advanced technology of a leading molecular biology lab, the most productive tool for generating good ideas remains a cirele of humans at a table, talking shop. The lab meeting creates an environment where new combinations can occur, where information can spill over from o
... See moreDrugs that save lives, like technologies that transform industries, often begin with lone inventors championing crazy ideas. But large groups of people are needed to translate those ideas into products that work.
Safi Bahcall • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Although he was largely an observer of the technical community that created Silicon Valley, his various ideas and crusades around the Whole Earth Catalog, which he created in the fall of 1968, foreshadow and resonate with the techno-utopian culture that the Valley spawned.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Robin Sloan • The Golden Door
Kleinberg was trying to understand network behavior. Page and Brin were building something.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
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