💡 David Byrne on forgotten ideas that return David Byrne explains how ideas dismissed earlier can gain relevance later, according to his remarks. He cites Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, forgotten in Melville’s time and now regarded as the great American novel. He also points to economist Hyman Minsky, whose work became influential a decade after his death when the 2008 financial crisis made “Minsky Moment” a mainstream term.