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Quite interesting so far.

Here we go again.

Chapter 1: What jumps are actually possible at this time?
Chapter 2: Networks n shit. Interaction of ideas and people. "Metabolism" of networks.
Chapter 3: Hunches and long term ideas and growth

I give up. Way too boring.

Now the fun begins. I'm gasping in awe. Using something like DEVONthink on large scale :O

Disorganised brains are smarter because the neutrons are more likely to collide and thus, make ideas. This explains why working in a too quiet environment is not as effective as in the one that has some noise in the background (like a café).

I like the book so far. A lot of Science, a lot of point of view from how and why. I like the explanation how Gas Ideas are all over and not stable and Solid minerals Ideas just stay one way and they are stable and strong and There are ideas like Water that can modify into different ideas and make one idea that can be stable. I like it so far.

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Darwin's paradox hooked me up.

Nope. I was really intrigued by the premise but after three chapters it remained largely devoid of real examples and mostly the kind of thing I hear speakers say at conferences that get you interested until you realize there might not be that much “there” there. I loved the Ghost Map but the books that he writes that are less tangible and objective seem a bit like pop psychobabble to me. No thanks.

"Chance favors the connected mind" 👀

Interesting idea to read many book in a batch (reading vacation) rather than read book over the long period of time.

Introduced the "commonplace book" used by every self-respecting 18-19th century Englishmen. It seems that this tradition was passed to me by my russian supervisor, who, however, picked it up from some english condensed matter professor.

Information Spillover: share ideas because that's how they develop, you're giving the idea an opportunity to be looked at from another perspective.

History proves this works - Cities and MIT's building 20

Talks about how restrictions encourage innovation. Necessity brings about change - when you're innovating consciously, you tend to think of things outside the adjacent possible, ideas that are ahead of your time and momentarily useless.

“If there is a single maxim that runs through this book’s arguments, it is that we are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.”

Ch3: The Slow Hunch was pretty interesting. FBI agent Ken Williams' 'Phoenix Memo' and Zacarias Moussaoui's flight training - but still resulted in a massive intel failure that was 9/11. Then, Darwin's hunches about natural selection and through to the tradition of 'Commonplace books'. And then to Tim Berners-Lee's hunch that became WWW. And finally the hunch of Krishna Bharat which became Google News.

He's talking about the flow of ideas, how walls can be impediments to that, and the likes. Not very interesting!

Ch 1. Not great!

For now I feel like it's not worth reading yet. Can't really understand what the author wants to express or explain.

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Finished the introduction and moving into chapter 1

Going good the author talks about expatation - the thing being used for purpose it was not intended to begin with , nice ..... The example is now the first organisms for feather for flight , its initial usage being to provide shelter However turned out to be useful in flight

It is good even the starting was a little boring and need to read through without interest it is now interesting , the author talks about the word serendipity , the act of finding things by accident I suppose , it is nice thing I think I find this book in such way

Brilliant. I was enthralled with every chapter, paragraph, sentence and word. Johnson has laid out the history of innovation and the possible future in this book.

Gave up.

I really like this author, exactly my type of entertainment.

interesting... somewhat deep and not very easy reading

Slightly pompous, but decent.

Le fil de la pensée et des idées glisse comme du beurre dans une poêle. Géniale entrée en matière.