Detective. Fixer. Mentor. Writer.
North Devon
Joined April 2009
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T4D: 'Mediocristan is where we must endure the tyranny of the collective, the routine, the obvious, and the predicted; Extremistan is where we are subjected to the tyranny of the singular, the accidental, the unseen, and the unpredicted.'
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#Innovation
40P Example: Principle 13, The Other Way Around - Kathleen flips Tom...
youtube.com/watch?v=txH6DFf2…
T4D: When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.'
William Gibson
#Innovation
40P Example: Principle 17, Another Dimension - BVs
youtube.com/watch?v=DMxXt6MM…
40P Example: Principle 34, Discard & Recover - 1979 in 2026...
youtube.com/watch?v=ibWeepnv…
40P Example: Principle 38, Enriched Atmosphere - Los Lobos does Shakey... with added grunge...
youtube.com/watch?v=EunOC2JS…
40P Example: Principle 9, Prior Counteraction... ?
A Brief History of Philosophy:
• 375 BC: Plato is wrong
• 323 BC: Aristotle is wrong
• 311 BC: Epicurus is wrong
• 225 BC: Chrysippus is wrong
• 364 AD: Hypatia is wrong
• 413 AD: Augustine is wrong
• 1020 AD: Avicenna is wrong
• 1180 AD: Averroes is wrong
• 1250 AD: Aquinas is wrong
• 1320 AD: Ockham is wrong
• 1641 AD: Descartes is wrong
• 1675 AD: Spinoza is wrong
• 1739 AD: Hume is wrong
• 1781 AD: Kant is wrong
• 1807 AD: Hegel is wrong
• 1843 AD: Kierkegaard is wrong
• 1844 AD: Marx is wrong
• 1887 AD: Nietzsche is wrong
• 1903 AD: Russell is wrong
• 1921 AD: Wittgenstein is wrong
• 1927 AD: Heidegger is wrong
• 1966 AD: Foucault is wrong
T4D: ‘Success is 50% luck and the other 50% being lucky in riding your luck.’
Charles Saatchi
#Innovation
40P Example: Principle 35, Parameter Change - super-stretched version of Shiverman...
youtube.com/watch?v=N47KnuP8…
T4D: 'What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?'
Hermann Hesse
#Innovation
T4D: 'We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent.'
Robert Anton Wilson:
40P Example: Principle 19, Periodic Action - double-time segments... the least commercial single of all time (complete with 1+ minutes of feedback at the end)...?
youtube.com/watch?v=9RTW40qM…
On Genrikh Altshuller's Centenary...
darrellmann.com/genrich-alts…
Genrikh Altshuller Centenary Celebration tomorrow,
11am-1pm EST... The #TRIZ world uniting...
us06web.zoom.us/j/8718560183…
T4D: 'I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.'
Virginia Woolf
40P Example: Principle 9, Prior Counteraction - Tonto... greatest verse in country music?
youtube.com/watch?v=hpM8FjO4…
T4D: 'There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.'
George Bernard Shaw
#Innovation
#ThirdWay
40P Example: Principle 17, Another Dimension - sax fragment (1'37")...
youtube.com/watch?v=eigh8DZh…
T4D: ‘Freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.’
Erich Fromm
#Innovation