by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Ideas, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The fourth quadrant is Johnson’s way of categorizing ideas that came from networks of people working without a specific market-incentive to create an idea. Things like radar, liquid-filled rockets and RND were all discovered in this manner. He says there are a lot...
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Ideas, Innovation, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The final chapter of the book is called “The Fourth Quadrant.” Sounds kind of mysterious, right? What is the fourth quadrant and why is it important? In short, Johnson categorizes inventions into 4 quadrants and shows that a lot of them are happening in a way that...
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Ideas, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
Here’s a short and sweet summary for Exaptation. Great ideas can have multiple applications. Be on the lookout for solutions that are already out there, hiding in plain sight, just yet to be united with their problem. How can you better promote this uniting of...
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Ideas, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
I had never heard the term exaptation before reading this book. I’m actually still not really comfortable using it casually. I’m comfortable in my nerdliness, but I’m not sure I can or should be allowed to get away with using a word like that in every day parlance....
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Ideas, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
That’s a bold headline there. I’m not sure I can really back up a claim like that, but shit, if it’s not true, then I’m one step closer to the truth (see what I did there?). The first concept about error driving evolution is explored in Johnson’s chapter...
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Ideas
Nobody likes a perfectionist, and nobody should like a perfect experiment. It’s actually inefficient to run an experiment with a high probability of success — you’re not actually maximizing the value of new information. (Don Reinertsen explains this...
