Long hunches and the connected mind: where good ideas come from

Ideas and innovation seems to be a favorite theme of mine. Here is nice short discussion of where good ideas come from. I love the connection Steven Johnson of TedGlobal (July 2010) makes between coffee houses and GPS. My main takeaways from the 18-minute video below might be familiar to you already:

1. Chance favors the connected mind.
2. Good ideas come more from long hunches than from flashes of insight.

Related to the above, you might enjoy Jessa Gamble's 4-minute talk "Our natural sleep cycle". It helps me justify my own early morning awake moments.