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[[Anne-Laure Le Cunff & Nick Milo - How can we do Combinational Creativity]]

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Date: [[2022-09-06]]<br /> Time: 9:00 - 10:00 AM<br /> Host: [[Nick Milo]]<br /> Location / Platform: #Zoom<br /> URL: https://lu.ma/w6c1b9cd<br /> Calendar: link <br /> Parent event: [[LYT Conference 2]]<br /> Subject(s): [[combinational creativity]]

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generational effect

Silent muses which resulted in drugs, alcohol as chemical muses.

All creativity is combinational in nature. - A-L L C

mash-ups are a tacit form of combinatorial creativity

Methods: - chaining<br /> - clustering (what do things have in common? eg: Cities and living organisms have in common?)<br /> - c...

Peter Wohlleben is the author of “hidden life of trees”

CMAPT tools https://cmap.ihmc.us/

mind mapping

Metaphor theory is apparently a "thing" follow up on this to see what the work/research looks like

I put the following into the chat/Q&A:

The phrase combinatorial creativity seems to stem from this 2014 article: https://fs.blog/networked-knowledge-and-combinatorial-creativity/, the ideas go back much further obviously, often with different names across cultures. Matt Ridley describes it as "ideas have sex" https://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex; Raymond Llull - Llullan combinatorial arts; Niklas Luhmann - linked zettels; Marshall Kirkpatrick - "triangle thinking" - Dan Pink - "symphonic thinking" are some others.

For those who really want to blow their minds on how not new some of these ideas are, try out Margo Neale and Lynne Kelly's book Songlines: The Power and Promise which describes songlines which were indigenous methods for memory (note taking for oral cultures) and created "combinatorial creativity" for peoples in modern day Australia going back 65,000 years.

Side benefit of this work:

"You'll be a lot more fun at dinner parties." -Anne-Laure

Improv's "yes and" concept is a means of forcing creativity.

Originality is undetected plagiarism - Gish? English writer 9:41 AM quote; source?

Me: "Play off of [that]" is a command to encourage combintorial creativity. In music one might say "riff off"...

Chat log

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Lenhardt, S. (2021, November 30). Labore am Limit: Bei PCR-Tests kommt es zu Engpässen. tagesschau.de. https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/labore-corona-pcr-test-101.html

Juliette Kayyem. (2021, February 15). This is great data about vaccine hesitancy, declining since 2020. There is a difference between the ‘wait and see’ (31%) and the anti-vaxxers (13%). Of ‘wait and see’, 37% are simply at ‘not first’ and want to assess family/friends. In short, vaccinations beget vaccinations. [Tweet]. @juliettekayyem. https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem/status/1361462039919607811

Carl Baker. (2022, February 11). When I last updated this chart in September, the maximum y-axis value was ~120. Https://t.co/Fhywj3xweI [Tweet]. @carlbaker. https://twitter.com/carlbaker/status/1492096944390475798

Did the district just not see the problem with taking away some schools busing?

This could be both good and bad.

potential downside: If people only fix things locally, then they may be less inclined/likely to actually/also submit a merge request, and therefore it may be less likely that this actually (ever) gets fixed upstream. Which is kind of ironic, considering the stated goal "No more waiting around for pull requests to be merged and published." But if this obviates the need to create a pull request (does it), then this could backfire / work against that goal.

Requiring someone to fork a repo and push up a fix commit -- although a little extra work compared to just fixing locally -- is actually a good thing overall, for the community/ecosystem.

Ah, good, I see they touched on some of these points in the sections:

• Benefits of patching over forking
• When to fork instead

Key Performance Measure for social security processing

This is a distinctly Western-centric attitude. Not necessarily shared in other cultures.

How does this idea of negative time stretch / waiting as insignificance apply to technology or the social coordination process?

How does "slow technology" overcome this and retain a positive self-reflective value?

Post a goddamn blog post.

Sometimes this takes weeks or even months. I remember taking a walk with an art teacher several years ago, and I asked him how a particular student was doing in his class, and specifically what he was working on because it was hard for me to figure out how to get him connected to my work in English. It was November, just before Thanksgiving, and my colleague said, "I haven't figured out what his project will be yet," he said, before going on to explain a couple of things he had tried without success. I was struck with how patient he was being in letting the project come to the student, and not forcing him into a prescribed curriculum. Waiting is so hard, yet the work produced once there is a "flow" for a student makes it worth the wait. This has strong implications for school structures however! We need to be with students for longer periods of time. It also has implications for how groups work together. Perhaps a student who hasn't found his/her project yet can help others?