CONTACTS 
0201 - Armstrong Consulting                 650 845 1782
020101 - Mr. Eric Armstrong
020102 - eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com

SUBJECTS
Diary Improves Mental Acuity Memory Reasoning Creativity Innovation
Innovation Stifled by Large Organizations
Large Organizations Stifle Innovation
Truth Deviations Spawn Creativity by Lucky Accidents
Power User Wants Fast Performance Function Keys
Creativity Persistence of Edison, Requires Resources
Edison Willing to Fail 1000 Times
Creativity Analysis Context Linking Intelligence
Improving Improvement, Continual Learning
Creativity Innovation Work Environment Improving Improvement, Continu

1612 -    ..
1613 - Summary/Objective
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161401 - Follow up ref SDS 30 0000, ref SDS 26 0000.
161402 -
161403 - Received ref DRT 1 0001 from Eric, dated 001101 in which he relates
161404 - the source of creativity in a way that makes sense to him, stating..,
161405 -
161406 -      At last, at last, the concept of "creativity" makes sense.
161407 -      Although still somewhat mysterious, it is an understandable,
161408 -      usable, even "drivable" process.
161409 -
161410 -      I have to thank Consciousness Explained, by Daniel C. Dennett,
161411 -      for the insights. ref DRT 1 KX5O
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161413 - Eric relates a party experiment, like the telephone game, cited most
161414 - recently on 990924, ref SDS 6 3955, and then Eric says...
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161417 -       ..
161418 -      Persistance Brings Creatifity, Per Edison
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161420 -      For me, the essence of creativity has always been a matter of
161421 -      persistence -- of doggedly asking a question until one day an
161422 -      answer appears -- although it may take years before it happens.
161423 -      ref DRT 1 0064
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161425 -         This aligns with Edison who was willing to fail a thousand
161426 -         times, in order to succeed, and could afford it, reviewed on
161427 -         940722. ref SDS 5 8994
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161429 -         On 000724 professor Joe Ransdell at Texas Tech explained that
161430 -         creativity entails a lot of waste using trial and error that
161431 -         necessarily encounters a lot of failures in order to discover
161432 -         a truly useful innovation.  This is another aspect of the need
161433 -         for front-end investment that pays for itself many times over.
161434 -         ref SDS 16 HD4H
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161436 -         On 940611 an aspect of hard work and asking questions which
161437 -         Eric cites today, is the SDS process that expedites creativity
161438 -         by proactively capturing the record, which increases awareness
161439 -         of correlations, implications and nuance.  Adding intelligence
161440 -         that organizes, aligns and summarises, increases opportunity
161441 -         to recognized hidden patterns that reveal creative solutions.
161442 -         ref SDS 4 5EPD
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161445 -       ..
161446 -      Analogies Reflect Patterns that Emerge from Alignment
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161449 - Eric says...
161450 -
161451 -      I suspect that the process of seeing an answer is mostly, if not
161452 -      entirely, a process of recognizing an analogy. So it was that the
161453 -      double-helix vision of DNA arose in a dream that featured the
161454 -      intertwining snakes of a medical caduceus. ref DRT 1 HN9J
161455 -
161456 -         On 940219 history of Watson and Crick discovering DNA
161457 -         structures was reviewed. ref SDS 3 3402
161458 -
161459 -         Alignment in SDS records aids forming useful analogies, since
161460 -         the process associates similar patterns, both short and long
161461 -         term.  Creativity was reviewed on 890809. ref SDS 2 7433
161462 -
161463 -         SDS provides an environment that presents a lot of potential
161464 -         analogies, which can be weighed, adjusted and selected, rather
161465 -         than requiring someone to create an analogy from scratch.
161466 -
161467 -             [...in another record today, a book on English composition
161468 -             cites elements of creativity that flow from alphabet
161469 -             technology, and which are enhanced by SDS. ref SDS 31 K5WL
161470 -
161471 -             [On 001122 John Maloney with KMCI attributes creativity
161472 -             and innovation to chaos, random, spontaneous connections,
161473 -             ref SDS 33 NZ3L, from effortless sharing and unconscious
161474 -             collaboration. ref SDS 33 S67L
161475 -
161476 -             [On 000606 DNA analogized to ontologies as organic
161477 -             structures. ref SDS 15 PW8G
161478 -
161479 - Submitted ref DIT 1 0001 commenting on creativity; adding the idea of
161480 - pattern recognition from both creating connections that provide
161481 - alignment, and so aid the analogies, that Eric suggests, today, and,
161482 - further, by enabling information to be assembled in different contexts
161483 - to form different patterns, which Doug may have in mind in calling for
161484 - multiple views, most recently on 001027 in the OHS Launch Plan.
161485 - ref SDS 25 D6H8 and ref SDS 25 NW8E
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161487 - On 000505 Eric noted that a lot of connections boggle the mind,
161488 - ref SDS 14 4524, and on 000824 he objected to capturing the record,
161489 - ref SDS 18 7O9I, which was cited by another authority on creativity at
161490 - a professional event on 940611. ref SDS 4 5EPD
161491 -
161492 -      [...in another record today, a book on English composition cites
161493 -      elements of creativity that flow from alphabet technology, and
161494 -      which are enhanced by SDS. ref SDS 31 K5WL
161495 -
161496 -      [On 001115 Jack Park submits work by Gelernter which he says
161497 -      correlates creativity with breaking rules. ref SDS 32 007M
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