The Life and Times of Jamaal Glenn
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Jonah Lehrer, self-borrowing and the problem with “big ideas”
It is tough to come up with new, fresh material that advances a counterintuitive thesis. It’s even tougher to repeatedly come up with those new “wow, I never looked at it that way” ideas. And when you do come up with those ideas, it’s probably more tempting to recycle them.
