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Writing music feels like that process just over and over again, like you've got a bunch of sounds or a groove or a chord progression and you're just looking for that thing on the other side, that little chunk over there, that
puzzle
piece that clicks right in.
Other thinkers advocate for a middle ground, suggesting that intention is just one piece in a larger
puzzle.
And so I think the answer to this
puzzle
is that there's a much better solution out there, that's gotten nobody excited because everyone is so delighted with the way car seats are presumably working.
This is an example of coercive logic, invented by the great logician and
puzzle
creator Raymond Smullyan.
It's 4am, you've been awake for forty hours, when you unlock a
puzzle
containing this video of some kind of dance-off between a chicken and a roller-skating beaver.
A puzzle-hunt-style
puzzle
is a data set.
So, to give you an example, this is a
puzzle
called "Master Pieces."
So the
puzzle
has various clues that tell you what matters here are the artists, not the specific works of art.
These puzzles come in various
puzzle
hunts, which come in various shapes and sizes.
There's one-hour ones designed for novices, 24-hour road rallies, and the
puzzle
hunt of
puzzle
hunts, the MIT Mystery Hunt.
That's actually an apt comparison, because one year involved a
puzzle
where you had to construct a working Enigma machine out of pieces of cardboard.
So, from a constructor's point of view, a
puzzle
is where I have an idea, and instead of telling you what it is, I'm going to leave a trail of breadcrumbs so you can figure it out for yourself, and have the joy and experience of the aha moment.
So, to show you what I mean, this is a
puzzle
I co-constructed with my friend Matt Gruskin.
And you could get to the end of the game part, but you won't have solved the
puzzle.
But what this
puzzle
emphasized for me is the value of perspective shifts in inspiring an aha.
So, in this puzzle, you go from experiencing the world on the ground, as a character, to looking down on it from above as if you're playing a board game, and in that shift, you completely reframe all the information you've been given.
Once you find that out, you can't not construct the puzzle, and it's going to be about having the solvers make that connection in their own minds.
Before long, you find yourself staring at a turtle, and asking yourself, "Is this a puzzle?"
This might be a familiar experience to you, if you've ever been watching a TED Talk and asked yourself, "Is this a puzzle?"
So, thank you for listening, I have to go write a
puzzle.
So, imagine that feeling of working on a crossword
puzzle
and you can't figure out the answer, and the reason you can't is because the wrong answer is stuck in your head.
Fortunately, there’s a different way to solve this
puzzle
that’s both simple and elegant.
But there was still one important part of the
puzzle
that was missing.
And that is like the picture on the outside of a jigsaw
puzzle
box.
Scientists don't love being wrong but we love puzzles, and the universe is the biggest
puzzle
of them all.
When I say poetic, I just mean language at its most condensed, like a song lyric, a poetic
puzzle
to be unlocked and unpacked.
But that sleep is a missing piece in the explanatory
puzzle
of aging and Alzheimer's is exciting because we may be able to do something about it.
We’ve still got one more
puzzle.
So, for example, here's a word
puzzle.
This will be a fascinating
puzzle
as we go into the next half-century, and where I expect that we will have more and more Mars missions to answer these questions.
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