Anton Waagaard

[Anton Waagaard @antonlw1]

1/ New paper: Social selection, collaboration, and cumulative advantage in the survival of novel ideas. I examine how novel ideas are produced, and how they survive the social processes that decide what becomes accepted knowledge. https://t.co/r3VCqcaKYe

[Anton Waagaard @antonlw1]

16/ And the broader claim here being creativity in knowledge systems is likely ecological: novelty has to move through proposal-reuse. Collab./cumulative advantage/inst. thresholds shape those transitions, and therefore also shape what later counts as the space of possible work.

[Anton Waagaard @antonlw1]

1/ New paper: Social selection, collaboration, and cumulative advantage in the survival of novel ideas. I examine how novel ideas are produced, and how they survive the social processes that decide what becomes accepted knowledge. https://t.co/r3VCqcaKYe

[Anton Waagaard @antonlw1]

15/ I take the institutional implications of this to be preventing one-way ratchets, as in review systems should notice acceptance droughts/excessive concentration around sparse lineages, and also novelty targets that increase rejection without increasing realised novelty.

[Anton Waagaard @antonlw1]

Orienting yourself to ask “how might this be better” to just about anything is actually such a powerful way of being well. Taking something you care about and saying how can I make this thing better, more beautiful or more well. Melioristic design-mindedness?

[Anton Waagaard @antonlw1]

My take on Erwin’s new book, from a creativity theory slant
https://t.co/agBFbwfesm

[Anton Waagaard @antonlw1]

My latest piece on thinking through heterogeneous graphs for navigating the morphological space of unseen adjacencies in research processes. Might be of interest if you think a lot about discovery, creative research, or how new ideas are found. https://t.co/9VLjbyE1Bp

[Anton Waagaard @antonlw1]

Exploring the gap between encountering ideas and integrating them, touching on: why encountering new elements ≠ forming new associations, the metabolic cost of genuine reorganization, and second-order heaps' exponents and what they reveal about learning
https://t.co/7ZtrqTf16s