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Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson challenges the lone-genius story and asks how networks, partial insights, mistakes, and neighbouring possibilities make innovation possible.
Worth Reading
Worth Reading
Independent reading selections for creativity, craft, curiosity, and meaning.
Worth Reading is AuthZ’s shelf of independent reading selections, not a collection of literary essays. We choose books that help people create, develop their craft, follow their curiosity, or find language for questions that matter to them. Each note explains what a book might make possible in a reader’s life.
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What’s Our Problem?
Tim Urban uses drawings, analogy, and a first-principles framework to examine polarization, group identity, and the habits that make public disagreement harder.
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Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan argues that media alter the scale, pace, and patterns of social life, making the form of a tool as consequential as its content.