the adjacent possible by maxd https://padlet.com/maxd/adjp en-us 2014-08-07 08:34:55 UTC 2015-05-18 00:12:32 UTC hello@padlet.com maxd maxd https://padlet.com/maxd/adjp/wish/31245634 The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them. Each new combination opens up the possibility of other new combinations. Think of it as a house that magically expands with each door you open. You begin in a room with four doors, each leading to a new room that you haven't visited yet. Once you open one of those doors and stroll into that room, three new doors appear, each leading to a brand-new room that you couldn't have reached from your original starting point. Keep opening new doors and eventually you'll have built a palace.

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The premise that innovation prospers when ideas can serendipitously connect and recombine with other ideas may seem logical enough, but the strange fact is that a great deal of the past two centuries of legal and folk wisdom about innovation has pursued the exact opposite argument, building walls between ideas. Ironically, those walls have been erected with the explicit aim of encouraging innovation. They go by many names: intellectual property, trade secrets, proprietary technology, top-secret R&D labs. But they share a founding assumption: that in the long run, innovation will increase if you put restrictions on the spread of new ideas, because those restrictions will allow the creators to collect large financial rewards from their inventions. And those rewards will then attract other innovators to follow in their path.

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]]> 2014-08-07 08:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/maxd/adjp/wish/31245634 Grant MacDonald https://padlet.com/maxd/adjp/wish/31246411 When it comes to innovation I think of the "glass bead game" described in Herman Hesse's book of the same name. The beads all represent ideas and the masters of the game arrange them like chess pieces to create new and beautiful patterns. If we take two apparently unconnected ideas and bring them together to compare, looking for overlap and conflict, we almost always come up with a new thought arising out of the two original ones. To apply this to your post maxd (like a glass bead exercise) the adjacent is in the space that appears between two rooms as our universe expands. (Big bang analogy)

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