Why Living in a City Makes You More Innovative
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Why Living in a City Makes You More Innovative
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Re: Why Living in a City Makes You More Innovative
#2Oh look, a fluffy article about how living in a city makes you more innovative. On a website primarily used by city dwellers that pride themselves on being innovative.
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#3Oh look, a fluffy article about how living in a city makes you more innovative. On a website primarily used by city dwellers that pride themselves on being innovative.
It reviews research on specifically what makes cities innovative.
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#4This type of research is interesting and valuable. However, I can't help but wonder how much has changed over the last 15 years. The fact that you and I are discussing this article on websites like HN seems to be a great example of technology overcoming some of the barriers of location. A motivated person can easily find ways to interact and form ties. Maybe the impact of geographic location is higher among those less motivated.
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#5Nope. Solitude is "the #1 habit of highly creative people". http://zenhabits.net/creative-habit/
Big cities are full of noise and distractions.
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#6Nope. Solitude is "the #1 habit of highly creative people". http://zenhabits.net/creative-habit/ Big cities are full of noise and distractions.
Attempting to refute an article about a scientific study by linking to a collection of quotes from Felicia Day and Franz Kafka doesn't seem like a very solid methodology...
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#7Correlation does not imply causation.
Relevant XKCDs:
http://xkcd.com/552/ http://xkcd.com/852/ http://xkcd.com/1138/
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#9Oh look, a fluffy article about how living in a city makes you more innovative. On a website primarily used by city dwellers that pride themselves on being innovative.
On a website primarily used by city dwellers ....
How do you know that?
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#10I have City associated mostly with high cost of living and lower life standard. In City I would probably spend 60+ hours/week in office and on commute just to break even.
Outside of City a can have big house for my family, spend 3+ hours/day on my hobbies. And even make enough savings for 1 year runway for my startup :-)