Author Steven Johnson says that ideas don’t come in a stroke of genius â they emerge from a network of people, places and real-world constraints.
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/08/154457665/is-the-eureka-moment-a-myth
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TED Radio Hour: Steven Johnson: Is the “Eureka” Moment a Myth? : NPR
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TED Radio Hour: Matt Ridley: What Happens When Ideas Have Sex? : NPR
Our planet’s biodiversity comes from the adaptation of sexual reproduction — the ability to recombine the DNA of two parents into a wholly unique organism. Science writer Matt Ridley says that ideas reproduce just like the humans who think them up.
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/08/154452486/what-happens-when-ideas-have-sex
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5by5 | The Cocktail Napkin #65: My Canadian Boyfriend
5by5 - The Cocktail Napkin #65: My Canadian Boyfriend
That’s right. April 26. Last episode.
I’ll mention more about it in coming episodes, but I think this will be a good thing for all of us. It’ll give me some time to think about what I’ve been trying to turn this show into and then develop a new show based off whatever that something is.
I’m excited, and I hope you’ll be excited too.
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5by5 | The Cocktail Napkin #64: Geeking in the Rain
5by5 - The Cocktail Napkin #64: Geeking in the Rain
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5by5 | The Cocktail Napkin #61: A Bridge Will Never Build Itself
Two Kansas City boys who were launched onto the Internet by the Daring Fireball Linked List (Jeremy and Shawn Blanc) sat down for mediocre coffee to discuss happy accidents, taking big leaps and how simplification adds power to technology.
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Future Tense: Science Fiction
Russian/American scientist and author, Isaac Asimov, once wrote: Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today — but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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5by5 | The Cocktail Napkin #49: A Love Affair With Failure
5by5 - The Cocktail Napkin #49: A Love Affair With Failure
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5by5 | The Cocktail Napkin #21: Creative Modality
[From July, 2010]
"Merlin Mann and I cover a lot of territory, from creative failure to creative modality and how being in the wrong mode at the wrong time might bring on that failure."
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The Cocktail Napkin #39: Dear Abby for the Social Age? - 5by5
Jeremy talks with video producer Michelle Vargas about giving good advice to 15 year-olds, putting good stuff into the world to get good stuff back, mentorship and setting up a video playhouse for the purpose of acting in the moment.
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Where good ideas come from
People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London’s coffee houses to Charles Darwin’s long, slow hunch to today’s high-velocity web.
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