I have a habit of TED-A-DAY (TAD) as my travel time use to be awfully long.
With the lockdown, I converted the TAD habit into a assimilation-synthesis exercise and started doing it visually. Here is my notes from today. A synthesis of a synthesised talk
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With the lockdown, I converted the TAD habit into a assimilation-synthesis exercise and started doing it visually. Here is my notes from today. A synthesis of a synthesised talk


Today, TED serendipity recommended this to me and I thought will take some visual notes along. Just a new experiment. Been doing this for book reviews as well under the project n/n (more on that later) https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from
Takeaway 2: Ideas have a long incubation period and there is nothing called a flash or eureka or light bulb. Most ideas are born out of the slow hunch.
Takeaway 3: Ideas are brewed better in chaotic environments aka liquid network rather than an orderly calm environment. No wonder work is better in coffee houses.
In sum total:
- Chance favours the connected mind.
- Side hustles and passion lead to more discovery like a Sputnik led to GPS
- Innovations better happen when ideas are democratised and not protected. Hail Open Innovation Platforms.
- Chance favours the connected mind.
- Side hustles and passion lead to more discovery like a Sputnik led to GPS
- Innovations better happen when ideas are democratised and not protected. Hail Open Innovation Platforms.