Now, implicit to this idea of combinatorial creativity is the admission is that nothing is truly original, at least not in the sense of being built from scratch, and that can be hard.
Is nothing truly original, then? (when it is just combinatorial)
By remixing, we make something new (if the ideas cross-pollinate in an intersection)
Roy Peter Clark, writing scholar and coach at The Poynter Institute, says, “Reports give readers information. Stories give readers experience.” I would add: An article is generic; a story is unique.
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Romanini, Daniele, Sune Lehmann, and Mikko Kivelä. ‘Privacy and Uniqueness of Neighborhoods in Social Networks’. ArXiv:2009.09973 [Physics], 21 September 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.09973.