Messy
by Tim Harford · first published 2016
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…in itself unique, so there's no need to build an opinion from scratch on every topic. In terms of concrete techniques for creativity, there's a couple books on this subject that might interest you -- Messy by Tim Harford [0], The War of Art by Steven Pressfield and The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry. Harford talks about stuff like cross-pollination, with the idea that well-known solutions for one medium…
on “Ask HN: How can I get better at original thinking and being creative?” ↗Tim Harford collected some good insights on this in the Automation chapter of his book "Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World". The essence of his complaint revolves around Air France Flight 447 and attributes the incident partially to the lack of experience the pilot…
on “Motorists ‘are being misled by autonomous driving aids’ – report” ↗In Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World, Tim Harford describe the strategy of the initial period of Amazon, and compare Bezos with Erwin Rommel, the desert Fox.
on “Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video]” ↗It seems that this is related to the Tim Harford book Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, but that book is not about deep learning.
on “Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)” ↗