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Several years ago, my friend and now collaborator Beth Noveck began developing a program that she called Peer-to-Patent, a software platform that allowed outside experts and informed amateurs to contribute to the prior art discovery phase of patent review, both through tracking down earlier inventions that might be relevant, and through explaining those inventions to the overwhelmed examiner in...
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
— published 2006 — 19 editions |
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
— published 2010 — 20 editions |
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Everything Bad is Good for You
— published 2005 |
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Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
— published 1999 — 17 editions |
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
— published 2001 — 9 editions |
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The Invention of Air
— published 2008 — 13 editions |
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Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age
— published 2012 — 7 editions |
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Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate
— published 1997 — 5 editions |
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The Innovator's Cookbook: Essentials for Inventing What Is Next
— published 2011 — 6 editions |
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The Best Technology Writing 2009
— published 2009 — 4 editions |
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“Chance favors the connected mind.”
― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
“The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.”
― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
“Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft—and then they take off for a week or two and do a deep dive into the words they’ve stockpiled. By compressing their intake into a matter of days, they give new ideas additional opportunities to network among themselves, for the simple reason that it’s easier to remember something that you read yesterday than it is to remember something you read six months ago.”
― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
― Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
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