[GET] Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson

[JOEMLM]

sometimes a good book will get your mental juices flowing, this is such a book. it is about the history of innovation and gives you many 'case studies'. this book helped give birth to a few ideas for me, so i hope it does the same for you. if you are a thinker, dreamer, idea person or creative type, then this book should give you some ideas. or at least, help you focus on how to develop those ideas.
i got this book from a friend of mine, this is a bestseller and my friend buys bestsellers every week, and gets the print version. he likes to exchange printed books for other books he does not have and would like to read. we traded a bunch of books my last visit with him, and this was one of them. i thought i would share it here, as it may have not been shared yet. and since i cannot share the printed version with you, i found a pdf of it online.

The academic literature on innovation and creativity is rich with subtle distinctions between innovations and inventions, between different modes of creativity: artistic, scientific, technological. I have deliberately chosen the broadest possible phrasing—good ideas—to suggest the cross-disciplinary vantage point I am trying to occupy. The good ideas in this survey range from software platforms to musical genres to scientific paradigms to new models for government. My premise is that there is as much value to be found in seeking the common properties across all these varied forms of innovation and creativity as there is value to be found in documenting the differences between them. The poet and the engineer (and the coral reef) may seem a million miles apart in their particular forms of expertise, but when they bring good ideas into the world, similar patterns of development and collaboration shape that process.
here is an intro video: watch it in full screen, and remember you can pause it at any point if you want to read what is on the screen, or take notes



If there is a single maxim that runs through Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson’s arguments, it is that we are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them. Like the free market itself, the case for restricting the flow of innovation has long been buttressed by appeals to the “natural” order of things. But the truth is, when one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, 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 do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete.
The book presents 7 parameters that facilitate idea creation:

1. The adjacent possible = Ideas within communities thrive on each other.

2. Liquid networks = This medium makes innovation easier. Encourage social flow not solitude.

3. The Slow Hunch = Ideas develop slowly over time.

4. Serendipity = In what appears lost, ideas can be found.

5. Error = Failing fast leads to wins.

6. Exaption = Don’t recreate the wheel. Borrow.

7. Platforms = Ideas are built and spread on foundations. These foundations are platforms.

if you want a copy of the whiteboard, here it is:

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get your pdf copy of the book here:

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you can read it here, to see if it is something you would like, try before you buy, lol

[Makepeace]

Another awesome share JOEMLM, fully repped

I just want to contribute with the versions in MOBI and EPUB, for those who prefer these formats, and thank you for the PDF you posted.

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[xJuggl3r]

Fantastic contribution, thank you very much

[oldinc]

Thanks to both of you for all versions

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