Every so often people ask me for career guidance. I guess I’ve done pretty well charting my own career path, so far at least, and folks want to know the ins and outs. Well, here’s a shortish post that captures…
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Book Report: Where Good Ideas Come From
“A series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments. I have distilled them down into seven patterns. The more we embrace these patterns – in our private work habits and hobbies, in our office…
Tagged with: adjacent possible, Benjamin Franklin, commonplace book, Communitech, dreams, error, flow, Great Man Theory, innovation, Isaac Asimov, James Watt, Kitchener, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, NeoNurture, Sigmund Freud, Steven Johnson, Stuart Kauffman, TED, Thomas Jefferson, Waterloo, William James, William Stanley Jevons
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science
Growing your career with the adjacent possible
Just because you don’t know where you’re ultimately going doesn’t mean you can’t start poking around. I didn’t know where I was going, but it was no accident that I’ve arrived. I started my career in technology as a “Quality Assurance…
Book Report: How We Got to Now
“This is a history worth telling, in part, because it allows us to see a world we generally take for granted with fresh eyes. Our lives are surrounded and supported by a whole class of objects that are enchanted with…
Tagged with: Ada Lovelace, adjacent possible, Charles Babbage, Clarence Birdseye, clean, cold, Elon Musk, Frederic Tudor, Galileo, glass, How We Got to Now, innovation, Leonardo Da Vinci, light, Niels Bohr, perspective, research, science, sound, Sputnik, Steven Johnson, Stuart Kauffman, technology, Thomas Edison, time
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Posted in Books, Math and Science
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