Comments on: I Have An Idea… https://thomaslarock.com/2011/03/i-have-an-idea/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:02:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Thomas LaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2011/03/i-have-an-idea/#comment-2418 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:02:17 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=5705#comment-2418 In reply to kendra little.

Too funny, I never thought about the idea of writing about ideas, I *do* wonder where that inspiration came from…

]]> By: kendra little https://thomaslarock.com/2011/03/i-have-an-idea/#comment-2417 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:58:38 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=5705#comment-2417 Oh NO. I thought writing about ideas was MY IDEA!!!!

Oh well,s I’ll still write that blog post anyway. Expect a linkback sometime in the next few weeks!

]]> By: Claire https://thomaslarock.com/2011/03/i-have-an-idea/#comment-2416 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:09:16 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=5705#comment-2416 As a writer, you quickly learn that a) there really is nothing new under the sun and b) you need to make people think otherwise.
And bacon is a mashup of meat+smoke+perseverence in the name of fat.

]]> By: Thomas LaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2011/03/i-have-an-idea/#comment-2415 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:54:20 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=5705#comment-2415 In reply to Michael J Swart.

Michael,

Never speak poorly about bacon again.

]]> By: Michael J Swart https://thomaslarock.com/2011/03/i-have-an-idea/#comment-2414 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:53:05 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=5705#comment-2414 Douglas Hofstadter agrees with you when he wrote “Variations on a theme as the crux of creativity”.

I paraphrase very loosely, but he agrees that all creativity is mashups of older ideas. He might even say that the wheel was an idea mashup of a bolder and a stick, and that cooking bacon, was just the next logical progression after discovering fire.

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