1. Dan Dennett: Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of memes: If you work with people on ideas, you’ve probably seen it happen many times before: a bad idea is introduced, the team goes with it, and somewhere along the line, we realize it’s all about to go very badly. Ideas replicate (especially bad ones) with a mind of their own. Kill the bad ones, and keep the good ones. 2. From J.K. Rowlings’ talk on the benefits of failing, and the importance of imagination: “Given a time machine or …
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