Topic
ideas
- Oblique Strategies
Oblique Strategies was originally a set of cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt back in 1975. Each card contains effectively a single prompt intended to help get you unstuck creatively. Prompts like: Use an ol…
- Possibility Space
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…
- How To Walk And Talk
Kevin Kelly’s “walk and talk” is something I’ve gotta try. At least more often.
- On Validating Product Ideas
Building new things is an expensive, arduous, and long path, so product builders are always hunting for means to validate new ideas. Chasing ghosts is costly and deadly. The "data-driven" culture we now live in discou…
- New Metaphors
New Metaphors is a project to help spur creative thinking through metaphor. It's a deck of cards you can use in exercises to help stimulate new perspectives on an existing idea: A metaphor is just a way of expressing…
- Steve Jobs on Ideas vs. Products
A lot of Steve Jobs content is hagiography at this point, but this clip is fantastic: There's an enormous delta between idea and execution. Someone can take a great idea and squander it. Or conversely, someone could t…
- Daily Journaling with Morning Pages
About a year ago I started experimenting with the idea of a daily journal. From someone within the Roam community, I heard about the concept of Morning Pages, which is a tool for creative writers to build a muscle for…
- Concept-based Notes and Composable Ideas
If a note is an idea, we want to make the idea as atomic as possible, so we can find and stitch them together into an interconnected web of ideas. We want composable building blocks. Composability helps us stack, mix,…
- Exapting Technologies
New forms of technology tend not to materialize from thin air. The nature of innovation takes existing known technologies and remixes, extends, and co-opts them to create novelty. Gordon Brander refers to it in this p…
- Phase Transitions
David Perell's been putting out a series of 100 posts, 1 per day, brief essays about writing. I enjoyed this one about the evolutionary, and recombinant, nature of ideas: All creativity is inspired by other people’s i…
- Novelty and Heresy
Paul Graham: Every cherished mistaken assumption has a dead zone of unexplored ideas around it. And the more preposterous the assumption, the bigger the dead zone it creates. There is a positive side to this phenomeno…
- Stripe Press
I found out recently, I think through an EconTalk interview with economist Tyler Cowen, that Stripe has created their own publishing house for books. From their own about page: Stripe Press highlights ideas that we th…