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Business visionary and bestselling author David Weinberger charts how as business, politics, science, and media move online, the rules of the physical world - in which everything has a place - are upended. In the digital world, everything has its places, with transformative effects: Information is now a social asset…

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1 author picked Everything Is Miscellaneous as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Although we value order and try to group things logically, one man’s logic is another man’s chaos.

I love the book because it challenges us to think about things we take for granted and the importance of discovery rather than finding. As Weinberger says: A topic is not a domain with edges. It is how passion focuses itself.

I agree absolutely that knowledge is not in our heads—but between us. Think of the white spaces on the org chart: that is where things happen.

Love this: Research shows that messiness begins within and to think without mess is to ”imagine…

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