Where good ideas come from by Steven Johnson: Blackmans Book Report

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Pg 5 "Darwins Paradox: so may different life forms, occupying such a vast array of ecological niches, inhabiting waters that are otherwise remarkably nutrient-poor.

Pg 13 "The 10/10 rule: A decade to build the new platform, and a decade for it to find a mass audience.

Pg 34 "The Multiple: A brilliant idea occurs to a scientist or inventor in the world, and he goes public with his remarkable finding, only to discover that three other minds had independently come up with the same idea in the past year.

Pg 47 "To make your mind more innovative, you have to place it inside environments that share that same network signature; networks of ideas or people that mimic the neural networks of a mind exploring the boundaries of the adjacent possible.

Pg 58 "Its not about the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It's not that the networks itself is smart, it's that the individuals get smarter because they're connected to the network.

Pg 84 "Commonplace book: Transcribing interesting or inspirational passages from ones reading, assembling a personalized encyclopedia of quotations.

Pg 108 "When nature finds itself in need of new ideas, it strives to connect, not protect.

Pg 184 "Doppler effect: Predictable way a waveforms frequency changes when the source or the receiver is in motion. Ex: Ambulance drives by and the pitch changes the further it gets from you.

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