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If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can... →
If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.
It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime... →
Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more... →
In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are... →
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple... →
If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons &... →
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid... →
For decades, we've worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a steadily declining path toward lowest-common-denominator standards... →
I have problems with the violence and the torture on '24.' What I'm trying to say is that that's not the only story, and I think that... →
Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the... →
The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel... →
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