Category: Ideas

A few thoughts after being remotely diagnosed with COVID-19

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This past Sunday I woke up and did not feel well. I had a slight headache, some body aches, and was generally tired. I went about my morning routine with the kids, and within half an hour my headache was worse, and I developed cold chills and a mild dry cough. When I took a deep breath, I felt a bit of pressure in my chest. My wife and I quickly arranged for me to be isolated in our basement, and I got in bed and took my temperature, which was 102° F. On paper, I had most of the COVID-19 symptoms, so I called my primary care doctor’s office, and was routed to MGH’s COVID-19 line. I went through

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How Do People Get New Ideas?

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By chance I ended up coming across two pieces of content on the source of creativity today — both were very interesting and seemed worth sharing. The first is an NPR TED Radio Hour episode called ‘The Source of Creativity’ that first aired a couple weeks ago. The second is an essay written by the science fiction writer Issac Asimov in the late 50’s called ‘On Creativity.’ It was actually written for an MIT spin-off company that had a contract with the US government to brainstorm “the most creative approaches possible for a ballistic missile defense system.” The whole piece is interesting, but here’s the start: How do people get new ideas? Presumably, the process of creativity, whatever it is, is essentially

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