Hi all, Edward K. Ream escribió: > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Kayvan A. Sylvan <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Find scripts did not prevent e from inventing script buttons. > > > > Creativity has nothing to do with being in a group, and > everything to > > do with solving juicy problems. I have no opinion about the > role of a > > group in finding such problems. > > > > The social aspects of creativity are well worth investigating. Not > > having read the report, I'm not sure how relevant it is to my > > concerns. > > > The tone of this response leads me to believe that my message may not > have been received in the way I intended. > > > Maybe I was feeling a bit rushed that day. I meant no disrespect. In > fact, I am an avid follower of what might be "pop social science". > There is a small cottage industry of books that distill recent social > science research. "The Social Atom" and "Made to Stick" are two that > come to mind immediately.
There is also a non technical book called Nexus: The groundbreaking theory of Small Worlds that says something about connections at various levels: people, the Web, cellular level. These findings were first about the mathematics of social world (the experiment about sex degrees of separation) but after making them explicit on that context they have been found in others. It seems that there is some kind of underlaying topology about dynamic self organization and in the context of solving problems, the kind of topology affects what the collective solve as a collective. In fact the recent thread about Collecting ideas vs inventing ideas shows that the community solves problems taking resources from different other places because of the connection of his members with ideas from that places and with Leo. In this community I can find discussions that are not in another places, even between programmers or free software projects and I think that this is related with the fact that Leo is trying to make something appealing to a lot of people with different background. Having this diversity on the community makes the community to solve problems in a interesting way. This is not to decrease the importance of individuals here, but I believe that we have a tendency to overweight view of the individual and his role in the problem solution and usually not see he as a member of a network where the problem solution happens. Cheers, Offray --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
