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Where Good Ideas Come From
"The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank." — Steven Johnson
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“Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands (and occasionally, contracts) over time.”
-“Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
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amazon.com“Innovative environments are better at helping their inhabitants explore the adjacent possible, because they expose a wide and diverse sample of spare parts - mechanical or conceptual - and they encourage novel ways of recombining those parts.
-from “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson