# Scott Young - Creativity Is Productivity (Highlights)  ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/24867470) **Source**:: #from/readwise **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Scott Young]] **Full Title**:: Creativity Is Productivity **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [www.scotthyoung.com](https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2023/02/28/creativity-is-productivity/) **Host**:: [[www.scotthyoung.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2023-03-01]] **Created**:: [[2023-03-04]] ## Highlights - **Be at a knowledge frontier.** You can’t contribute anything new if you’re not at the boundary of knowledge for a discipline. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gtddjwsp5ptggej6r5kq868c)) ^484190671 - **Idea generation and public reception are stochastic processes.** Once you reach the threshold, further advances have a significant random component. This might be due to the trial-and-error process of finding new advances. Or it might come from the unpredictability of public taste as to what work receives acclaim. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01gtddjnd7sey1dkggc4a7b6c0)) ^484190650