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Steven Johnson: 'Eureka moments are very, very rare'

October 20, 2010 — Eric Böhnisch-Volkmann

Science writer Steven Berlin Johnson has been a DEVONthink user for many years now. This week he was interviewed by The Guardian and also mentioned DEVONthink as his creativity tool:

I can put a quote in and ask it to show me things that are related to this – which is literally a way of exploring the adjacent possible. … Half the time it’ll suggest something completely irrelevant, but amid that noise there’s always some crazy little new connection that I hadn’t thought of.”

Read the full article or have a look at Steven’s new book Where Good Ideas Come From.