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		<title>By: Emily Cunningham</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Emily Cunningham]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ha! Your post reminded me of a piece Jamias Cascio, a prominent futurist I follow, wrote for Fast Company, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openthefuture.com/2009/05/me.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Should Creative Workers Use Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs?&quot;&lt;/A&gt;. But while I was hunting for that article, the first results I found pointed to an article he wrote for The Atlantic entitled, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/intelligence&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Get Smarter&quot;?&lt;/a&gt; in which he mentions your work! I&#039;m starting to realize how interconnected the ideas and thinkers I follow are.  This is the second time in a week where an article from person X reminded me of something I&#039;d read by person Y only to discover person Y quoted person X in her article.  I guess it&#039;s not really that weird, but I&#039;m sure getting a kick out of it :). 

Anyways, here&#039;s the part of Jamais&#039; Fast Company article that is most relevant to your post (Oh, and btw, I&#039;m personally not a fan of cognitive enhancement drugs):

&quot;But &#039;letting your mind wander&#039; is very often an important part of the creative process. The &#039;aha!&#039; experience comes from the brain making connections between superficially unrelated subjects, and identifying a deeper link. How do enhancements that focus our attention affect this process? Is it possible that cognitive drugs enhance one aspect of knowledge work--productivity--while diminishing another--creativity?&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ha! Your post reminded me of a piece Jamias Cascio, a prominent futurist I follow, wrote for Fast Company, <a href="http://www.openthefuture.com/2009/05/me.html" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Should Creative Workers Use Cognitive-Enhancing Drugs?&#8221;</a>. But while I was hunting for that article, the first results I found pointed to an article he wrote for The Atlantic entitled, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/intelligence" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Get Smarter&#8221;?</a> in which he mentions your work! I&#8217;m starting to realize how interconnected the ideas and thinkers I follow are.  This is the second time in a week where an article from person X reminded me of something I&#8217;d read by person Y only to discover person Y quoted person X in her article.  I guess it&#8217;s not really that weird, but I&#8217;m sure getting a kick out of it <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> . </p>
<p>Anyways, here&#8217;s the part of Jamais&#8217; Fast Company article that is most relevant to your post (Oh, and btw, I&#8217;m personally not a fan of cognitive enhancement drugs):</p>
<p>&#8220;But &#8216;letting your mind wander&#8217; is very often an important part of the creative process. The &#8216;aha!&#8217; experience comes from the brain making connections between superficially unrelated subjects, and identifying a deeper link. How do enhancements that focus our attention affect this process? Is it possible that cognitive drugs enhance one aspect of knowledge work&#8211;productivity&#8211;while diminishing another&#8211;creativity?&#8221;</p>
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