Sam Parr

And he's like, this was like a bitter taste of we really tried.

We won, but not by enough to even solve the protein.

We're like, we're here to solve the protein folding problem, not win the competition.

And to solve it, you need 90% plus accuracy.

And he describes this like the next year where they basically were like, so we went back to the drawing board.

try to come up with new ideas.

And I thought it was a cool CEO moment.

So he was like, I know when you need to come up with a creative idea, you can't force it.

Like squeezing it doesn't make creativity come out when you just push the team.

We need an answer now.

Like that's not going to get the best idea.

So they used constraints, but what they didn't do was basically like put everybody into fight or flight mode.

Because when you're in fight or flight, it's kind of like why your best ideas come to you when you're in the shower or when you're relaxed or when you're in your sleep or when you're on a walk.

Because the brain, like, you have two modes.

One is executive mode where you're doing tasks.

And that's good at doing tasks.

But it's not good at making new connections between...

existing fuzzy data.

Exactly.

And this is also how, if you read about like Steve Jobs with the, he was like, no keyboard on the phone.