An important aspect of tinkering is that it is driven by people’s natural curiosity; what tantalizes and draws them for reasons they cannot necessarily explain. Following this curiosity leads in the direction of maximal interestingness — a sort of hunch that asking a certain question will lead to fruitful answers. This is the true purpose of much vaunted “collaboration” — it is a mechanism for averaging and combining the interestingness instincts of people with diverse backgrounds and skills, in the hope that it will lead to profitable opportunities that no one would find on their own.
