What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.
Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinki… - Steven Johnson
Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinki…
- Steven Johnson
In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow mad… - Steven Johnson
In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow mad…
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 ca… - Steven Johnson
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 ca…
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them. - Steven Johnson
We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.
Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore. - Steven Johnson
Being right keeps you in place, being wrong forces you to explore.
We need to play each others instruments. - Steven Johnson
We need to play each others instruments.
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memorie… - Steven Johnson
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memorie…
What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an envir… - Steven Johnson
What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an envir…
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation. - Steven Johnson
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.
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