The subject is a quote from Bob Frankston. Its the reverse of an idea I've had for a while, that if you make things a little bit easier they will occur a lot more often.

This is where I believe the explosion in cultural productivity (and other forms) is arising. Note I'm not claiming that the quality of production is increasing (though for the adept I'm sure that is true), the new entrants reduced barriers permit are also reduced guarantees they can leap as high as the incumbents.

But as Linus Pauling observed, "The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away."

And how are we to identify the good ones, when admittedly the "crud" will grow faster than the good? Collaborative peer to peer filtering via cheap, easy, personal global ("blogal?") publishing?