Up to now, the philosophers of emergence have struggled to interpret the world. But they are now starting to change it.
We have a natural tendency to romanticize breakthrough innovations, imagining momentous ideas transcending their surroundings, a gifted mind somehow seeing over the detritus of old ideas and ossified...
What Ruef discovered was a ringing endorsement of the coffeehouse model of social networking: the most creative individuals in Ruef’s survey consistently had broad social networks that extended outsid...
When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.
A walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks;...
As the historian Tom Standage observes, they were among the first to recognize the importance of trademarks and advertising, of slogans, logos…. Since the remedies themselves usually cost very little...
Cities have marvelous innate abilities for understanding, communicating, contriving and inventing what is required to combat their difficulties, she wrote. They get their order from below; they are le...
How do you get those particular clusters of neurons to fire at the right time? One way is to go for a walk. The history of innovation is replete with stories of good ideas that occurred to people whil...
Innovation scholar Richard Ogle calls an idea-space: a complex of tools, beliefs, metaphors, and objects of study.
The more disorganized your brain is, the smarter you are.
The hummingbird effect. An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.
Today there are more than three billion people around the world who lack access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation systems. In absolute numbers, we have gone backward as a species.
When one looks at innovation in nature and in culture, environments that build walls around good ideas tend to be less innovative in the long run than more open-ended environments.
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