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May 2024
46m 11s

Innovation 2.0: Do Less

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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The human drive to invent new things has led to pathbreaking achievements in medicine, science and society. But our desire to create can keep us from seeing one of the most powerful paths to progress: subtraction. In a favorite conversation from 2022, engineer Leidy Klotz shares how streamlining and simplifying is sometimes the best path to innovation. 
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