Much of the writing of Alan Kay holds an insightful read into how the power of context (pdf) where he recalls the one-of-a-kind environment at Xerox PARC and ARPA which were orientated around “visions rather than goals” and “funded people, not projects” which as a result had attracted brilliant minds together cultivating different view points essential for progress where he considers:
Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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