Howells.

The Genius of the Tinkerer — on the origin of good ideas

February 12 — Found

A wonderful article by Steven Johnson in the WSJ on the origins of ideas:

…ideas are works of bricolage. They are, almost inevitably, networks of other ideas. We take the ideas we’ve inherited or stumbled across, and we jigger them together into some new shape. We like to think of our ideas as a $40,000 incubator, shipped direct from the factory, but in reality they’ve been cobbled together with spare parts that happened to be sitting in the garage.

The article is an extract from his book Where Good Ideas Come From: The Seven Patterns of Innovation, which has been sitting untouched in my Amazon wish list for some time…

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Comments — 2

Simon Saint on February 17 — 3:17 pm #

I’ve got a copy of Where Good Ideas Come From if you’d like to borrow it…

Daniel Howells on February 21 — 7:50 pm #

Ah really - yeah I might take you up on that. (But at the same, ridiculous time, I tend to only read stuff on the Kindle….!!)