Patrick O'Shaughnessy

So you find an interesting problem either that you want to, or in this case, don't want to work on necessarily.

Is your method iterative?

Is it more theoretical?

Describe the way that you start to invent in a field when you approach something for the first time.

It makes me think of the Nintendo lateral thinking with withered technologies idea.

You can always recombine stuff.

How often do you meet somebody that is as or more an original or out of the box thinker as you?

What do you attribute that to?

Why are you wired that way, do you think?

He reminds me of, I can never pronounce his last name.

His first name is McHale.

Last name starts with a C. The guy that wrote about creativity and flow.

His study said that the great creatives, the thing that they did that no one talks about, Picasso is a good example.

They cultivated the field that was going to be receiving the work.

And they put a lot of work into the conventional critics, the field.

And that's basically sounds what you're saying.

Is it oversimplifying it to say that more inventors should work backward from existing systems rather than forward from their ideals about how things should be?

When you first approached the problem, what was most broken about national security?

I was trying to think about a framework to discuss the state of weapons technology or the history of weapons technology with you.

And the cleanest I could come up with is a stupid consultant two by two, where on one axis you have offensive versus defensive technologies dominating.