Economists have a telling phrase for the kind of sharing that happens in these densely populated environments: “information spillover.”

At every moment in the timeline of an expanding biosphere, there are doors that cannot be unlocked yet.

A world where a diverse mix of distinct professions and passions overlap is a world where exaptations thrive.

This acceleration reflects not only the flood of new products, but also our growing willingness to embrace these strange new devices, and put them to use.

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.

A society organized around marketplaces, instead of castles or cloisters, distributes decision-making authority across a much larger network of individual minds.

In the dense networks of the first cities, good ideas have a natural propensity to get into circulation. They spill over, and through that spilling they are preserved for future generations.

people tend to condense the origin stories of their best ideas into tidy narratives, forgetting the messy, convoluted routes to inspiration that they actually followed.

Like Tim Berners-Lee, Bharat was blessed with an organizational culture that encouraged hunches and gave them the space and time they needed to evolve. And Bharat took that nurturing