« Smart Drugs | Main | The Relationship Economy » Nobody knows nothin'Is knowledge a rut that stymies innovation? Andrew S. Grove, the co-founder of Intel, put it well in 2005 when he told an interviewer from Fortune, “When everybody knows that something is so, it means that nobody knows nothin’.” In other words, it becomes nearly impossible to look beyond what you know and think outside the box you’ve built around yourself. I've had a couple of situations of late where I responded to academics on email lists and thought, too little jargon, I'm going to sound like a dumbass. I can't do jargon well, though, because I've worked so hard to think, and write, clearly. And I've come to realize, after years of thinking about thinking, that nobody's smart about everything and many outsmart themselves. Good piece about this in the the New York Times.[Link] jon posted this at 11:31 PM |
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