“Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft—and then they take off for a week or two and do a deep dive into the words they’ve stockpiled. By compressing their intake into a matter of days, they give new ideas additional opportunities to network among themselves, for the simple reason that it’s easier to remember something that you read yesterday than it is to remember something you read six months ago.” IdeasInspirationReadingBooksSelf ImprovementInnocencevation Book:Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation Source: Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation
“Chance favors the connected mind.” MindInspirationMotivationChanceConnectedFavorsConnecting Book:Where Good Ideas Come From Source: Where Good Ideas Come From
“One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.” MomentsInspirationMotivationWaterModernCenturyLondonHealthcareFounding19th CenturyPublic HealthModern Day Author:Steven Johnson
“What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.” PeopleLooksHas BeensIdeasEndsDoneMomentsInspirationSeeingPossibilityInnovationBrilliantBoundariesPushingLeapGood IdeasExploringBreakthroughFrontiersIdeas And Innovation Author:Steven Johnson
