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Opinion
Isaacson: Microsoft Teams signals a horrible, user-unfriendly experience
“You look at I don't know. Microsoft teams. It like says it imputes this is going to be a horrible experience. I'm not user friendly with you.”
Walter Isaacson Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 6:08 #121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
Opinion
Isaacson: Da Vinci and Franklin Succeeded Through Curiosity, Not Peerless Intellectual Power
“Leonardo da Vinci, and Ben Franklin for that matter, were not necessarily the highest powered Intellectual firepower people of their time. Leonardo. Probably not as great of a, you know, intellectual as Luca Pacioli, his friend who was a mathematician. But wha…”
Walter Isaacson Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 29:15 #121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
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Isaacson: Da Vinci abandoned conceptual projects when execution risked imperfection
“Sometimes the conception was more important to him than the execution, and when the execution became hard, or became something he didn't feel that he could hit out of the park, he just left it at the conceptual stage.”
Walter Isaacson Oct 5, 2021 ▶ 36:51 #121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
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