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The Genealogy of Ideas

The Genealogy of Ideas

Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas

Here’s a trick they teach you in art school. Draw two parallel lines on a piece of paper: 

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How many lines are there?

There’s the first line, the second line, but then there’s a line of negative space that runs between them.

See it? 1 + 1 = 3.

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