187 - Everything is a Remix
Remix to combine or edit existing material to produce something new. With knowledge work, the existing material takes the form of information and knowledge.
Elements of Creativity
Copying is how we learn, and we do that through emulation. It builds your foundation of knowledge and understanding. After establishing a foundation of understanding, then you experiment through transformation. Transformation is taking ideas and creating variations until you get a breakthrough. Most dramatic results happen when ideas are combined.