Episode 10.24: Why we shouldn’t bury our waste-paper baskets and what happens if we do. Abduction.

We start to think more intently about the creative process, and especially the relationship between bright ideas, wrong ideas, and the painstaking filling-in of the gaps that must inevitably follow behind the work of great pioneers guided by abductive leaps. Waste-paper baskets help lesser mortals understand the creative process to be less inspiration and more perspiration than most clever people like to admit.