Where Good Ideas Come From
by Steven Johnson
Leo Hollis says: He shows that cities are fantastically creative places, and the places where good ideas are formed and developed
Jane Root says: The normal stereotype of an idea is that it’s a light bulb that goes off in somebody’s head. There’s this ‘eureka!’ moment and a fully formed idea emerges. What he points out is that that is very, very rarely the case.
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