The bright rush of ideas
Where do good ideas come from, and how do they form? They come from extensive research bolstered by the ability to connect the dots between...
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The brilliance in absurdity
The synergy between brilliance and absurdity is one of the paradoxes of our time. One can’t be crazy without being wickedly smart. Thinking different isn’t...
Ideas often come indirectly
We know our ideas indirectly. We all take our influences, deconstruct them, and build new concepts from those bricks. Growth results from experimentation. Then we improvise and...
Everything goes in the queue
The queue is more of a scrapbook than a notebook. It’s a hopper of brain farts and observations brewing in all formats: text, images, video,...
About those light bulb moments
Ideas spawn as soon as you stop thinking about them, and only after you experimented and done your research. After the work’s been done, the...
Back of the envelope…for starters ✍️✉️
It doesn’t matter where or how an idea emerges. What matters is that the concept exists somewhere on paper, a napkin, an envelope, a Tweet,...
Ready, rock steady
The more you work the more you make, at least it appears that way. But Søren Kierkegaard thought wiser: “Of all ridiculous things the most...
Does automation make us less human?
How much of our thought process do we want to relinquish to artificial intelligence? Even Gmail’s auto-replies takes the burden out of typing in two-word...
What does it mean to be me?
Sociologist Erving Goffman believed that all human interaction was a theatrical performance. In his most famous book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman called...
Everything starts on paper
Everything starts on paper. Whether you are using post-it notes or loose leaf, paper is ideal for getting down thoughts and mapping out ideas quickly....
Thinking in fragments
Half-baked ideas are valuable ideas. Messy minds and messy processes generate new ways of thinking. We create through the imperfect. “A small drop of ink makes...
Textbook wisdom
Theories are productive ways of thinking even if they’re proven wrong. They lead to other research. Take the theory of evolution. The topic itself lends...