The Medici Effect
What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation

It's a great book on breaking down the barriers that hinder us from creativity. The book has insightful content and inspiring stories for those who wish to make a mark in the world. For the immediate future (i.e. school), this will surely help in brainstorming and coming up with quality/original ide......more

My disjointed notes from 2 and a half read-throughs. 17: Dawkins - Ideas are genetic. They propagate in the same way. 21: Seemingly unrelated concepts can almost always be combined in unexpected and potentially useful ways. Specialization has led to fragmentation of knowledge but the trend is reversin......more

Innovations come primarily from intersections. These are intersections between fields, between sciences, cultures, and geographic regions. The book is fun to read, and seems to be based mainly on anecdotes. But, there isn't much new here. Just a few weeks ago I read the book Range: Why Generalists T......more

One day as my friend and fellow author Henry Sienkiewicz were talking current events, philosophy, and how ideas rub against each other to form knew thoughts, he made a dash to his bookshelf and pulled out this book called the Medici Effect. He thought it would be an interesting fit. He was right. The......more

A ground breaking book about innovation. Innovation happens often at the intersection in 2 or more disparate fields. The whole world has been converted and in the National University of Singapore the Arts and Science departments have been merged to facilitate this effect. The Medici were so rich, th......more