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Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
“In some respects,” Gruber concluded, “Charles Darwin’s greatest works represent interpretative compilations of facts first gathered by others.” He was a lateral-thinking integrator.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Dunbar witnessed important breakthroughs live, and saw that the labs most likely to turn unexpected findings into new knowledge for humanity made a lot of analogies, and made them from a variety of base domains. The labs in which scientists had more diverse professional backgrounds were the ones where more and more varied analogies were offered, an
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Chiara Marletto • The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals
Because creativity by definition involves not only novelty but value, and because values are highly variable, it follows that many arguments about creativity are rooted in disagreements about value.