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PG has a high degree of believability to me when it comes to the topic of innovation, which makes it all the harder to square his assertion that a successful way to innovate is to be unaware of convention with my experience that you simply can’t even begin to innovate until you know the state of the art in a field.

I’ll have to think a lot about this, because it’s something important to me, and what he’s written here is very different from my experience and understanding, but I trust his history of accuracy, so I can’t just dismiss it.




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