by Jeff | Jul 30, 2016 | Strategy Page, Uncategorized, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The scientist Stuart Kauffman calls the “adjacent possible” the set of all first-order combinations or possibilities that exist at the perimeter of the current state. Let’s break that down. Steven Johnson uses this analogy: Imagine you’re in a room with 4 doors. Your...
by Jeff | Jul 30, 2016 | Strategy Page, Uncategorized, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
Time after time, inventions come from someone combining existing stuff – ideas, spare parts, technologies – in a new, original way. Or, similarly, a new idea or insight is realized by looking at some thing through the lens of a different perspective. In short, the...
by Jeff | Jul 16, 2016 | Ideas, Innovation, Strategy Page, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
You now know the what the Reef, City, and Web have in common: they are environments which facilitate the rapid creation, diffusion, and adoption of ideas. You have some sense of why, but you’re more curious than knowledgeable at this point. That will change as you...
by Jeff | Jul 16, 2016 | Ideas, Innovation, Strategy Page, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The world wide web – yes THAT web – is an environment that promotes the creation, diffusion, and adoption of ideas. Amazing, mind-blowing insight, right?! This first chapter of Where Good Ideas Comes From – Reef, City, Web – is about environments where a lot of stuff...
by Jeff | Jul 16, 2016 | Ideas, Innovation, Strategy Page, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The more people you put together, the more ideas you get. If you remember from the last post, the relationship between population and creativity (measured by patents per capita) is a power law relationship. There are probably flaws with that conclusion, but you don’t...
by Jeff | Jul 16, 2016 | Ideas, Strategy Page, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
Here’s the first idea in the book: dense areas of populations – like large cities – generate ideas much more effectively than do smaller cities.. Double the size of a city and you get more than double the number of ideas. The size of the city and rate of innovation is...
