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Clive Thompson on Finding Genius

January 6, 2009

Last month, at the December Lecture series, “The Interviewers,” Clive Thompson spoke on how to find genius in an interview.

“If you want to learn, you can’t study the object, that will tell you nothing. What you need to find out is all the things that didn’t work.

You need to see the prototypes that are shitty that didn’t work, the horrible stuff that made no sense at all and you need it lined up chronologically, and then, you can see genius emerging.”


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Comments

  1. Interesting presentation by Mr. Thompson.
    Some common sense stuff, we just don’t think to analyze.
    Great Video Series

    Good Luck

    Posted by REO on 02/08/09 @ 7:11pm #

    2. Comments

    1. The video you attached is very interesting. The concept of finding horrible stuff is great. All the lecture is about some common things but we all forget them when required.

      Posted by Shom on 02/25/09 @ 7:31am #
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