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Personal blog · adjacentpossible.substack.comscienceculturewriting

Steven Johnson writes Adjacent Possible, a personal blog at adjacentpossible.substack.com about science, culture and writing. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “How to Read a Novel”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2021

A newsletter from author Steven Johnson exploring where good ideas come from—and how to keep them from turning against us.

Most-linked posts?

  1. How to Read a Novel
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-31

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted “Let's Run The Experiment”: about DAOs and the future of organizations online as a story · 66 points

    HN discussion
  2. Submitted How to Read a Novel as a story · 38 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Writing at the Speed of Thought - A Look at NotebookLM as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Biological Age as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted We Need a Standard Unit of Measure for Risk as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted A Secret History of Monopoly as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted How to Read a Novel as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Snakes and the Adjacent Possible as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted The Thinking Path as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Three Models of Creativity as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted The Pirate Codes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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