It's been a crazy eight days since the Good Ideas World Tour launched; I've done about thirteen events in six cities, and at least twice as many interviews. Thanks to everyone who has come out, and who has bought the book or tweeted and blogged about it. All that work (and fun!) is paying off: the book will debut on next weeks' NY Times bestseller list at #23, in an insanely competitive week to be selling a new book. That's my fifth straight national bestseller, so I am going to take some time tonight to savor here in Chicago, but the tour keeps rolling tomorrow with a flight to St. Louis, followed by Minneapolis, Boston, New York, Dallas, and Austin. Come out if you can!




In the meantime, a few quick updates of interesting reviews and other responses from around the Web. The amazing Cory Doctorow wrote a review for BoingBoing that called the book a "multidisciplinary hymn to diversity, openness, and creativity." Salon is running an interview with me called "Epiphanies Are Overrated." Tuesday's Wall Street Journal featured a very smart column by Gordon Crovitz on Facebook, The Social Network, Larry Lessig, and Good Ideas. You can watch a video of me drinking a very large glass of Malbec and discussing the book on Asylum's Drinks With Writers series.




Finally, tomorrow's Financial Times includes a long review of the book by their columnist John Gapper; it may be my favorite review yet, and it ends with these lines:




"It is much more stimulating and insightful than the average innovation tome and Johnson does not attempt to lock the reader into a Gladwellian conclusion. Instead, it is like one of the reefs that initially baffled Darwin and are so admired by Johnson – a huge diversity of bright ideas co-exist happily without destroying or spoiling each other."




I suspect that will find its way onto the paperback jacket.