What Is Called Thinking?

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What's Your Best Frankenstein Idea?

What's Your Best Frankenstein Idea?

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Zohar Atkins
Dec 21, 2020
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“Frankensteining” is a term I learned from venture capitalist Doug Clinton.

Frankensteining is when you bring two concepts together that don’t normally go together—whether at the conceptual level, as in art and philosophy, or at the practical level, as in business innovation or policy creation. The more awkward or “cringe” or weird (and therefore more c…

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