Data Talks

Drinking doesn’t make you more creative (see paper 1), but bars do... Areas that banned 🍺 during Prohibition had a big drop in patenting as the informal social networks in bars were disrupted (paper 2). As networks were rebuilt elsewhere, patenting resumed in new categories! 🍻 pic.twitter.com/7jaepNOjKr

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) March 18, 2021