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THAT’LL NEVER WORK!John Graham-Cumming
(Crazy ideas and what to do about them)
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Selfridge’s People Wall
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Ideas are Radioactive Snowflakes
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Idea Food
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I know…
•I’ll write a 550 page travel book for nerds
•The covers the whole world
•That includes description of the science behind each place
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One night in Munich
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Get a “Crazy Idea Book”
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I know…
•I’ll persuade the British Government to apologize for the prosecution of Alan Turing
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The Crazy Idea Logical Fallacy
•That’ll never work because of X, Y and Z
•Yet everyone knows that assumptions turn out to be wrong
•So, the antecedent (X, Y, and Z) is false!
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I know…
•I’ll start a charity dedicated to building Charles Babbage’s never constructed “Analytical Engine”
Plan 28: http://plan28.org/
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The Analytical Engine
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Don’t Think So Hard!
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Cat’s Eyes
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Talk to the Teddy
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Go Long Haul
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Think only of failure, and ways to fail
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Big Ideas Are Easier Than Small Ones
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Replumb The Internet
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Three “Be”s
1. Be courageous
2. Be charming3. Be
reasonably unreasonable
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Signposts
•Charles Babbage and Plan 28: http://plan28.org/
•The Geek Atlas: •http://geekatlas.com/•The job board where your Hacker News karma gets you the right to post: http://usethesource.com/
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