Coleman McCormick

Topic / ideas

12 posts

Oblique Strategies

January 21, 2025 • #

A collection of 100 oblique strategies for creative problem solving.

March 29, 2024 • #

Gordon Brander:

There is something powerful about this notion of possibility spaces, both from a theory standpoint, and as a way of seeing. It causes you to approach challenges in a different way. You don’t need to be creative. The creative breakthrough already exists out there in the space of possibility. It’s just waiting to be discovered.

January 22, 2024 • #

Kevin Kelly’s “walk and talk” is something I’ve gotta try. At least more often.

On Validating Product Ideas

January 19, 2023 • #

Validating ideas is hard. Some thoughts on trusting your instincts and reducing abstraction for better feedback.

New Metaphors

October 31, 2022 • #

A card deck to help spark creativity.

Exapting Technologies

September 9, 2021 • #

Embracing, reusing, and remixing existing technologies to build new ones.

Stripe Press

August 26, 2019 • #

Stripe is publishing their own editions of classic books about human progress.