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.

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Thurgood on Broadway

I went the other night to see Laurence Fishburne in his one-man show Thurgood at the Booth Theatre. Sat in the first row. The entire stage set consisted of the big table and lectern from behind which lawyers stood before the court. It was extraordinary storytelling; great script, great acting.

He talked at length about the behind-the-scenes arguments at the NAACP before and during Brown v Board of Education, and it brought back memories of driving around Knoxville with Glenn Reynolds hearing about the classes in Constitutional Law he was teaching.

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