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Eureka! On the clustering of geniuses
Serendipity needs unlikely collisions and discoveries, but it also needs something to anchor those discoveries. Otherwise, your ideas are like carbon atoms randomly colliding with other atoms in the primordial soup without ever forming the rings and lattices of organic life. The challenge, of course, is how to create environments that foster these
... See moreSteven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.” Johnson says that a key way to get more parts on the table is to put yourself in networks of other creatives who are striving for the same thing. He continues, “What kind of environment creates good
... See moreTodd Henry • The Accidental Creative
When you have extraordinary achievement it seems to come in clusters - Silicon Valley is an example of that...Silicon Valley is an ambition-raising machine because you see others doing more around you.
Tyler Cowen • Thoughts in Between: exploring how technology collides with politics, culture and society on Apple Podcasts
Cities and markets recruit more minds into the collective project of exploring the adjacent possible. As long as there is spillover between those minds, useful innovations will be more likely to appear and spread through the population at large.