Where Good Ideas Come From

Bateson, Gregory. Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 2002.

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Ogle, Richard. Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.

Once you understand the way biological platforms build on the waste products generated within the system, Darwin’s Paradox ceases to be a paradox at all. The symbiotic relationship between coral and zooxanthella increases the total energy captured from the sun, and the tight nutrient cycles created by the productive reuse of energy sources by so ma

Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto. Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press, 2010.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

the connection between capitalism and innovation is more subtle than we often make it out to be. Yes, free markets introduce new forms of competition and capital accumulation that can drive the creation and adoption of new ideas. But markets should not be exclusively defined in terms of the profit motive.

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.