A. Johnson
A. Johnson
blessed change dramatic eyes gone grateful life orleans reason wide
The only reason I'd go back to New Orleans is for closure, ... My life has gone through a dramatic change that I could not have done on my own. I was squinting before, but now my eyes are wide open. I'm blessed and grateful to be where I am today.
shadow maps hovering
The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
smart crowds individual
This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.
smart ideas perspective
What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.
innovation permission thrive
When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.
innovation radio telephones
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.
bottom-of-the-barrel television lame
The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.
practice water intellectual
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton's famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age.
snow intellectual curiosity
Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualities—a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosity—but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.
achievement flying president
It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.
internet meetings havens
I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.
peace war firsts
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
apply hazardous lessons safe situations teaches
We don't have anything like this in New Mexico. This teaches us how to be safe in hazardous situations and see how those lessons actually apply on the street.
call complete hypothesis
We don't have anything we could call a complete hypothesis yet.