Kenneth Stanley — The Trap of the Objective (EP.288)

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Well hello everybody it's Jim O'Shaughnessy with yet another Infinite Loops I have been looking forward to today's guest. Well, maybe before I even had this podcast, because his book, Why Greatness Can't Be Planned, just hit me dead center because I'm like, that's the one I think. My guest is Ken Stanley, who has decades of work showing that complex creative domains from biology to technology often show that ambitious objectives can actually blind us. to the stepping stones that make breakthroughs possible.

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