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Strange bits of irreducible phenomena, by Brad Rubenstein.

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Strange Bits of Irreducible Phenomena, by Brad Rubenstein.

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April 30, 2008

In order to create, you gotta produce!

Stumbled upon, at blog.pmarca.com: Age and the entrepreneur, part 1: Some data. Research by Dr. Dean Simonton of U.C. Davis:

[C]reativity is a probabilistic consequence of productivity, a relationship that holds both within and across careers.

Within single careers, the count of major works per age period will be a positive function of total works generated each period, yielding a quality ratio that exhibits no systematic developmental trends.

And across careers, those individual creators who are the most productive will also tend, on the average, to be the most creative: Individual variation in quantity is positively associated with variation in quality.

Time to get to work.

Posted by BradRubenstein at April 30, 2008 06:42 AM | TrackBack