The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas. - Steven Johnson
Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
- 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
Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinki…
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…
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 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.
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…
Chance favors the connected mind. - Steven Johnson
Chance favors the connected mind.
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.
We need to play each others instruments. - Steven Johnson
We need to play each others instruments.
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