korrents

korrents · piece

The Architecture Of Ideas

Steven Johnson · 3 Feb 2026 · adjacentpossible.substack.com ↗

2 korrents from this piece

Steven Johnson did not write this page.

Every claim below was made in this piece, quoted word for word and numbered in the order the piece makes them, so you can read it there rather than take our word for it. The sentence above each quote is our reading of the claim, not their wording. Each quote was checked against a stored copy of the page at build time; where the two differ, the quote is the fact.

  1. Our reading

    Standard word processors are poorly suited for complex, long-form writing.

    Their wordsstandard word processors are actually comically unsuited for complex, long-form thinking

  2. Our reading

    The purpose of a creative work environment is to produce ideas that would not otherwise have occurred to you.

    Their wordsAt the most elemental level, that is the goal of a creative work environment: it should help you have ideas that would have never occurred to you.