The Adjacent Possible® Blog

Unlike the laws of physics, this process varies from person to person and artwork to artwork, each one creating a miniature new world with new laws, a cosmology of pigment and pattern.

But what if life is as inevitable as the fractal patterns on beaches or the creation of solar systems?

There are a lot more ways to be disordered than ordered.

     Click on arrow above to watch The Adjacent Possible Book Trailer   In this ongoing series of blog posts, we address the cultivation and pursuit of creativity. There is a flip side to this pursuit, namely the danger of an endless obsession with novelty. Can too much novelty be bad for you?         Not all novelty is created equally. One of our central tenets is the idea of the “Adjacent Possible,” novelty that has a particular relation to one’s current...

Artists and other creatives, including science fiction writers, often intuit the Zeitgeist before the scientists measure and codify it.

We are big fans of story. Story makes sense of things and strings concepts together. The rhythm and rhyme in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are what allowed the story to survive orally for centuries before Homer wrote it down. And how modern to have only one name.