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Legendary Innovators Like Franklin, Snow, And Darwin All Possess Some Common Intellectual Qualities—a Certain Quickness Of Mind, Unbounded Curiosity—but They Also Share One Other Defining Attribute. They Have A Lot Of Hobbies.

It Is Extraordinary How Safe Flying Has Become. You Are Now Statistically More Likely To Be Elected President Of The United States In Your Lifetime Than You Are To Die In A Plane Crash. What An Amazing Achievement As A Society! But What We End Up Focusing On Are The Catastrophic Failures That Are Incredibly Rare But Happen Every Now And Then.

Popular Culture, On Average, Has Been Growing More Cognitively Challenging Over The Past Thirty Years, Not Less. Despite Everything You Hear About Declining Standards And Dumbing-down, You Have To Do More Intellectual Work To Make Sense Of Today's Television Or Games - Much Less The Internet - Than You Did A Few Decades Ago.

Chance Favors The Connected Mind.

The Fusion Of Art And Technology That We Call Interface Design.