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THAT’LL NEVER WORK!John Graham-Cumming

(Crazy ideas and what to do about them)

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Selfridge’s People Wall

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Ideas are Radioactive Snowflakes

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Idea Food

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I know…

•I’ll write a 550 page travel book for nerds

•The covers the whole world

•That includes description of the science behind each place

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One night in Munich

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Get a “Crazy Idea Book”

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I know…

•I’ll persuade the British Government to apologize for the prosecution of Alan Turing

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The Crazy Idea Logical Fallacy

•That’ll never work because of X, Y and Z

•Yet everyone knows that assumptions turn out to be wrong

•So, the antecedent (X, Y, and Z) is false!

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I know…

•I’ll start a charity dedicated to building Charles Babbage’s never constructed “Analytical Engine”

Plan 28: http://plan28.org/

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The Analytical Engine

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Don’t Think So Hard!

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Cat’s Eyes

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Talk to the Teddy

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Go Long Haul

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Think only of failure, and ways to fail

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Big Ideas Are Easier Than Small Ones

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Replumb The Internet

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Three “Be”s

1. Be courageous

2. Be charming3. Be

reasonably unreasonable

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Signposts

•Charles Babbage and Plan 28: http://plan28.org/

•The Geek Atlas: •http://geekatlas.com/•The job board where your Hacker News karma gets you the right to post: http://usethesource.com/

•CloudFlare: http://cloudflare.com/