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Creativity Loves Constraint

By Marissa Mayer - Stanford
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Lecture Description

In product development, Google's Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, believes that a small amount of constraint - whether in file size, pixels, or speed - fosters a lot of innovation. The lesson she shares? Too much creative freedom can make creativity unfocused. A solution with a strict set of barriers yields more concrete solutions.

Course Index

  1. Ideas Come From Everywhere
  2. Give Ideas Credit, Not Credit for Ideas
  3. Work with Smart People
  4. License to Pursue Dreams
  5. Learning From Mistakes
  6. Data is Apolitical
  7. Creativity Loves Constraint
  8. Bank Users, Not Money
  9. Don't Kill Projects; Morph Them
  10. Surviving the Bubble