Status Updates From Where Good Ideas Come From

I abandoned it because it was all just stories not much on how to change workplaces allowing growth and new growth

Okay but getting repetitive no new insight on how to include in life

Chance favors the connected mind

Really makes me want to make things happen. Insightful and motivational!

I was slow to get into this one, but it's growing on me. Definitely interesting.

the adjacent possible

Second readthrough update: it is still a good book.

Just read the story of GPS.

Really enjoying this one from Steven Johnson--one of my favourite authors.

He has really shown how ideas develop

Hea raamat.

So far this is a great synoptic and cohesive view of lots of tidbits I've read separately over the years.

Some interesting material on sleep and brain function as relates to creativity and interconnections. Remember to take walks/long baths!

Hea raamat.

Hea raamat.

After getting past the authors absolute obsession with all things Darwin.. this book is rocking my world.

Un libro muy rico en ejemplos de innovación a lo largo de la historia, de cómo nos conviene más a todos la apertura y la colaboración para acelerar la innovación y mejorar los estándares de vida; de cómo las innovaciones generalmente provienen de un trabajo lento y de la combinación de múltiples campos simultáneamente. Lo estoy disfrutando mucho

I love this guy's writing style.

Very good book; I'm listening to the audio version.

"Exaption" is a concept I've understood intuitively for a long while and today I learned it has a name.

i quit reading, not liking the way this book was written at all! I cant keep focus.

but thus far even the most down on it's luck mall has retained it's original function... They have not yet been reclaimed by troupes of performance artists. Tell that to the http://www.charlestownemall.com/

Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

I read this book over the summer and am rereading for honors freshmen seminar. An extremely excellent read!

enough with book, the rest of the book is appendix for innovations.

This concept of a Common-Place Book is inspiring.

Bill gates is famous for taking annual reading vacations = serendipity

So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down

"...Ideas are works of bricolage; they're built out of the detritus".

One way in which innovation happens: "The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself. Yet it is not an infinite space, or a totally open playing field.