by Steven Johnson
Really good read on the best way for humanity to generate new ideas.
An inspiring, couldn’t-put-it-down book about how to nurture insights and creativity. Every year the Website Edge poses a question to thinkers in a variety of fields. The 2011 question submitted by Steven Pinker with some input from Daniel Kahneman is “What scientific concept would improve everybody...
An interesting, provocative exploration of the environments that spark creativity and innovation. Johnson's insights and observations are frequently fascinating but the ideas could be better organized and the narrative more focused.
Saw Steve Johnson speak at the Boston Book Festival in 2010, so I got the book out of the library. Interesting discussion of how "good ideas" develop: -- the adjacent possible. sorta the next step from where the idea is now. Innovative environments help their inhabitants explore the adjacent possibl...
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