Status Updates From Where Good Ideas Come From

Some interesting initial ideas… but not sure it’s that great overall.

Johnson is one of my favorite authors. That said, one could easily edit out 30% of this book where Johnson is trying with all his might to align innovation with evolution. Poor science hinted by Johnson, perhaps the worst is his anecdote of Archaeopteryx jumping from a tree and discovering it can fly. Quite embarrassing, and honestly does not contribute to the theme expressed in the title of the book.

Creative network: creative people as nodes of a “neural network.”

The adjacent possible. The castle with doors behind doors.

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this is just dragging on...

ok i WAS enjoying it but i'm really not anymore...

reading this for a class but since i'm reading the whole book you best believe i'm counting it

The best innovation labs are always a little bit contaminated.

99

Let the slow hunches marinate ZzzZzz

I- I-.. I'm speechless. I will never forgive myself for undermining this book. Might as well highlight everything at this point.

Gotta read it very sloooooowly cause the information is so rich. And here I thought I'd cruise through this book with no effort lol. I'm strapped in for the long run again, let's goooooooooooooo. Pray for me that I have the stamina for it lol.

Damn... this book is way better than expected so far. Truly fascinating! Johnson is an excellent storyteller.

What a fluid and beautiful writing. The font and formatting of the text in my edition is so aesthetically pleasing.

I ordered this book thinking it'd be a guide on how to come up with good ideas. When It arrived I realized that It's "The natural history of innovation". As an aspiring UX designer with a creativity drought, I was a bit let down of my honest mistake. After a bit of thinking I've come to understand that, to be an innovator, it would be benefitial to study our vast history of other great innovations. Let's go!

Not bad so far

"Gutenberg took a machine designed to get people drunk and turned it into an engine for mass communication."

"Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified." - Benjamin Franklin

"When the first market towns emerged in Italy, they didn't magically create some higher-level group consciousness. They simply widened the pool of minds that could come up with and share good ideas. This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the network itself is smart; it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network."
- pg. 58

"The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table."

Looking very promising (falling to confirmation bias myself... 😊)

Easy to read and inspiring. It has helped me go back to old habits that seemed to have lost there value but upon reflection may have been creating a value previously unaccounted for.

Excelente libro que nos explica cómo se ha dado la innovación durante la historia y nos hace evidente como funciona el proceso natural de la humanidad para llegan al pensamiento innovador.

Excellent

Page 166 must be used - bridge or influence in QI^2

Liking it this far - a good primer on how tot honk about innovation, even if it is a bit shallow.

Quite interesting so far.

Quite interesting so far.

Quite interesting so far.