The really great venture investments have tended to come from areas that very few people, at the time of first investment, thought would amount to anything. And the skill is in identifying those areas before they become fashionable, before they become obvious, before everybody is clamoring to invest in them.
To the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime... the dog did nothing in the nighttime. That was the curious incident, remarked Sherlock Holmes. Sometimes nothing is very important.
Most comedians I know are very serious people. They don't naturally laugh when something's funny, because they're like mad scientists. They almost look at the math of it.
Most people think of creativity as the production of something new. But Ogas and Rose argue that creative breakthroughs almost always involve making unusual connections between existing ideas. They say that highly creative people are essentially librarians of their own knowledge and experience — constantly cross-referencing and combining things in ways that others don't think to do.
AI is excelling at identifying patterns. It understands data. We humans excel at understanding what these patterns actually mean in this beautifully chaotic world of human behavior.
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Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
