by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Uncategorized, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
Platforms enable other ideas and products by providing an existing infrastructure. Software languages are platforms in that they enable you to do incredible things. WordPress is a platform technology, because here I am creating a website and I have an pretty damn...
by Jeff | Aug 13, 2016 | Uncategorized, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
A platform, in the product development world, is a difficult term to define. I know this because I’m trying to do it right now. It’s very difficult to not use the word “platform” in the definition of the word platform. I’m going to revert to one of Johnson’s examples...
by Jeff | Jul 30, 2016 | Uncategorized, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The slow hunch. That’s probably not going to make for a very thrilling half-hour drama on TNT, but it does make for an interesting read about ideas. Here’s a quick take on Johnson’s slow hunch: Most good ideas don’t arrive suddenly in a bolt of...
by Jeff | Jul 30, 2016 | Uncategorized, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The last few pages of the chapter on Liquid Networks are fantastic. They help to explain the crux of the chapter and are basically some of the key insights of this entire book. I particularly like this sentence: “…the most productive tool for generating good ideas...
by Jeff | Jul 30, 2016 | Uncategorized, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
Networks describe connected things. A Liquid Network describes a network where those connections can be maintained yet adapted. It describes a network that has a perfect harmony between the static and dynamic. Solid networks don’t change. These are environments where...
by Jeff | Jul 30, 2016 | Uncategorized, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
Just to recap, a network is an adaptable number of connections. The neurons in your brain are a network because there are a large number of connections and because it’s adaptable – new connections can be made. In the same way that your noggin is the place where your...
