![]() Where Good Ideas Come From - Open in Kindle Pattern 3: THE SLOW HUNCH They make it easier to disseminate good ideas, of course, but they also do something more sublime: they help complete ideas. Liquid networks create an environment where those partial ideas can connect they provide a kind of dating service for promising hunches. And more often than not, that missing element is somewhere else, living as another hunch in another person’s head. ![]() They have the seeds of something profound, but they lack a key element that can turn the hunch into something truly powerful. Where Good Ideas Come From - Open in KindleĪnd so, most great ideas first take shape in a partial, incomplete form. It’s not that the network itself is smart it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network. This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. They simply widened the pool of minds that could come up with and share good ideas. When the first market towns emerged in Italy, they didn’t magically create some higher-level group consciousness. The social flow of the group conversation turns that private solid state into a liquid network**. The lab meeting creates an environment where new combinations can occur, where information can spill over from one project to another.** When you work alone in an office, peering into a microscope, your ideas can get trapped in place, stuck in your own initial biases. In the book the author shows through numerous examples how cities, the eighteenth-century English coffeehouse or the first market towns in Italy ended up being great places for new ideas to flourish.ĭunbar’s research suggests one vaguely reassuring thought: even with all the advanced technology of a leading molecular biology lab, the most productive tool for generating good ideas remains a circle of humans at a table, talking shop. Steven writes on how the social flow of group conversations help ideas to connects. Many services could be built because of them, and then those services contribute to the creation of more ideas. When talking about technology, I think Amazon Web Services was one of the biggest rooms with unlocked doors. The list can go on and on, building Uber was not just sheer luck but rather a combination of ideas that were there waiting for someone to bring them together and unlock a new door. In order for Uber to exist, there were many doors that had to be unlocked - to list a few: That’s an idea which was “ahead of its time’. Let’s use Uber as an example, someone in the 60’s might have think of a device to order a taxi, but was it possible to do build that back then? No. The adjacent possible are those openings that unlock as we create new stuff.Ī great way to see the adjacent possible in action is to think of any web service that we use and then start going backwards. Anyone might be able to come up with extraordinary ideas but in order for them to succeed a previous set of ideas or innovations have to pre-exist. The term was coined by the scientist Stuart Kauffman to explain biological innovation but Steven uses it to show us how it can be used for ideas too. What the adjacent possible tells us is that at any moment the world is capable of extraordinary change, but only certain changes can happen. ![]() The first pattern introduced by Steven is called “the adjacent possible ”. The author gives us a broad historical outlook on how some ideas where born and then introduce each of his patterns and how they made that idea possible.īuy on amazon to follow along my highlights Where Good Ideas Come From - Open in Kindle Some environments squelch new ideas some environments seem to breed them effortlessly … The argument of this book is that a series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments … The more we embrace these patterns-in our private work habits and hobbies, in our office environments, in the design of new software tools-the better we will be at tapping our extraordinary capacity for innovative thinking. This is a book about the space of innovation. The author calls those patterns the 7 patterns of innovations. When we ask “Where good ideas come from?” there is a common believe they are born out of eureka moments, but the author give us a more descriptive answer to this question suggesting that eureka moments rarely exist and there isn’t a single source of ideas but rather there are a series of shared patterns and properties that recur to generate different kinds of innovations. I was looking forward to read this book after watching a TED talk by the author where he talks about slow hunches and the commonplace book.
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