Status Updates From Where Good Ideas Come From

The more unorganized your brain is the higher the IQ. 8)
talks about Devonthink a software package he keeps notes in over the years ( This is his commonplace book)

Commonplace book and the World wide web.

Babbage Differential engine did not have enough stuff close enough. (inventions,technology,) I see it as sort of being ahead of your time.

ideas of Possible Adjacent; Things that are close in proximity(time) can move an idea forward connect/combine

We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them... Environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments. Good ideas may not want to be free,but they want to connect,fuse,recombine....They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete.

His Ideas about Ideas. Great stuff. Reminds me of his Emergence book which I loved.

I'd never heard the name "common-place book" before, but that's exactly how I've been treating my lab/research notebook for years. Turns out Locke, Darwin, and many others did the same!

This shit is fascinating.