by Jeff | Jul 30, 2016 | Ideas, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The final nugget from The Slow Hunch chapter is about documentation. It’s really simple and it has two elements. First, it’s a best practice to document your ideas. Write your hunches down. It helps you reference them later. Second, and more importantly, documenting...
by Jeff | Jul 30, 2016 | Ideas, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
The Slow Hunch chapter. Recall that big, good ideas don’t typically come into focus quickly – they stew and fester and marinate and accumulate and slowly “fade into view.” Another thing that hunches do is interact. Just like people and ideas in a network, hunches are...
by Jeff | Jul 30, 2016 | Ideas, Where Good Ideas Come From Book
Charles Darwin’s idea about evolution is a pretty damn good idea. It’s arguably one of the best ideas ever formed by a human mind. Even if you believe the earth was formed magically six-thousand years ago, you have to give the idea of evolution some credit for being a...
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...
