Interesting anecdote + nugget of wisdom about how inventions get made/discovered https://antonhowes.substack.com/p/age-of-invention-getting-into-hot

Excellent read. Galileo swooping in to take credit is certainly a funny detail (I’d never heard that he was prone to doing this before). But my semi-tired entrepreneurial self who keeps looking on in jealousy at other successful products appreciated this one the most: > It’s not that an ordinary person sees something mundane […] and an invention then springs fully formed into their mind. Instead, it’s that people who are already actively trying to solve particular problems become reminded or aware of potential solutions. The inverted flask experiment was ancient and common. A mind actively searching for ways to measure things was not.

yeah, that bit reminds me of this essay too: http://www.paulgraham.com/genius.html