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    1. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Dec 2018
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      A high leverage pattern I see over and over again: designing processes/tools/etc such that they capture implicit knowledge and make it explicit, legible, and enduring.

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      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 2 Dec 2018
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      "The act of invention may simply be making conscious, explicit, and regular what has been done for a considerable time unconsciously or by accident." Elting Morison in https://www.amazon.com/Men-Machines-Modern-Times-Press/dp/0262529319 …, which is a great book.

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        2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 2 Dec 2018
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          One of my random thoughts about it is that some knowledge exists in no person's brain but is encoded the structure of networks, and so attempts to replicate the knowledge by copying all the brains and all the books but not the network graph are basically doomed to failure.

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        1. Kevin Kwok‏ @kevinakwok 2 Dec 2018
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          Calling it the software industry was a mistake I suspect. Made people think software was inherently what made things better. Vs it just being aligned on what mattered. Tightening, shortening, compounding, and making explicit the loops

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        1. Samuel Hammond  🌐 🏛‏ @hamandcheese 2 Dec 2018
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          In that sense, speaking meaningfully is an act of invention, too. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674543300 …

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        1. Omar Rizwan‏ @rsnous 2 Dec 2018
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          'paving cow paths'

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        1. asolove #blacklivesmatter‏ @asolove 2 Dec 2018
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          At the same time, building environments that make previously-hard work implicit and unconscious is how we become capable of doing more. “Humans create their cognitive powers by creating the environments in which they exercise those powers.“ -Hutchins’ Cognition in the Wild.

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        1. Ala'a Alawi‏ @AlaaMgrahi 2 Dec 2018
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          Some even tried to algorithimize the invention process. An interesting read https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Algorithm-systematic-innovation-creativity/dp/0964074044 … Note: IMHO except the book, the net is full of fluffy pseudo science around the concept

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