"Creativity flows from wonder, curiosity, play, and enjoyment.8 These feature prominently in biographies of great scientists and inventors. Current institutional arrangements discourage them, in favor of constant competitive pressure for mindless rote productivity." https://metarationality.com/credibility-post-truth
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Reply · Dec 21, 2022@deepfates I feel like it’s specifically engineered to tamp down on fun zany creativity for the sake of mundane productivity… Oh. 😞Repost · Apr 21, 2024RT @WIRExHEAD: "Curiosity is the desire to create or discover more non-random, non-arbitrary, regular data that is novel and surprising . .…Reply · Dec 2, 2023@twittiot3 @BasedBeffJezos i think anyone can cultivate their curiosity, focus on win-win over win-lose competition, be an independent thinker, value…Reply · Apr 11, 2022@doomed_lidar @tszzl Imo ppl can be both ... The most innovative are restless and hop around, don't just follow a straight line path into sleepy…