This week, Tomasz Artur Mielniczuk reviews Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson. Tomasz is a self-taught value investor who started investing following the 2008 crash. He also simultaneously taught himself English by reading books with the help of a dictionary to translate words. I have collaborated with him on this review.
Steven Johnson introduces the idea of the “long zoom”, which involves looking at problems from different scales. A long zoom perspective allows us to examine the intricate connections that impact various levels of a system, from down in the weeds to the broad environment.