mismatch and big ideas
new brilliant insights from malcolm gladwell:
video from the New Yorker Conference, talking about hiring difficulties in the modern age.
And in the New Yorker In the Air all about big ideas and where invention comes from. In the history of science, there are innumerable cases of people coming up with the same inventions at the same time (Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Darwin, etc. all had compatriots with ideas along the same innovative path). Great!
Just think what would happen if you put at least four bright web folks in a room at the same time with an open discussion plan, starting with a selected topic, but with the caveat that the discourse could lead to… anywhere! That, my friends, is the future of the 47th precinct!