Aggregating involves sorting ideas based on insights and human motivations, not industries or demographics.

Being fickle means capturing ideas without needing to fully understand or analyze them in that same moment.

Jeff Karp is a scientist inspired by elegance … and jellyfish. As an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, Karp’s research focuses on using bio-inspiration—inspiration from nature—to develop new solutions for all types of medical challenges. His self-named Karp Lab has developed innovations such as a device inspired by jellyfish tentacles

A great trend is a unique curated observation about the accelerating present.

Trend curators don’t seek needles, they gather the hay and then create the needle to put into the middle of it.

Elegance In Science, argues that elegant proofs or theories have most or all of the following features: they are simple, ingenious, concise and persuasive;

The real problem is that the customer loyalty industry – where brands are encouraged to fund and launch complex loyalty programs and dream up new opportunities to reward customers – is not necessarily adept at creating or encouraging active brand loyalty. Satisfied customers are not the same as loyal customers. Good performing satisfied employees

Curation is the ultimate method of transforming noise into meaning.

collecting ideas helped me to get better at saving and sharing ideas that people cared about.