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Where Good Ideas Come From

  • 326 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2010
  • 5 editions

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1 About this book

This work tracks the history of innovation in the form of the "slow hunch". The author discusses how new ideas form from the scaffolding of older ideas, a phenomenon he describes as the "adjacent possible". Includes delightful figures of how innovative ideas are shifting from one man with a plan for a profit to many minds working for the public good.

Good for readers who want: evolution, science, and business.

  • Evolution
  • Science
  • Motivational
  • Social science
  • Business & economics
  • History
  • Inventions
  • Creativity

2 About Steven Johnson

Born 1968

Steven Berlin Johnson (born June 6, 1968) is an American popular science and history author, TV and podcast host, and software creator.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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