The ideation process
A place to save my thoughts on brainstorming and how to streamline it
The ideation process
I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out different containers. A website is a container.
The Forbidden Zone
Our ideas, too, will disappoint us if we don’t give them the right environment to develop in. They’ll be shallow, derivative, dull, repetitive, or take too long to show up. Or they’ll just not show up at all. We must find the perfect glass jar and lid for them to appear in.
What is that perfect glass jar, though? Our ideas appear primarily in one... See more
What is that perfect glass jar, though? Our ideas appear primarily in one... See more
Nat Eliason • The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas The Art of Fermenting Great Ideas
In his 2012 essay, “More people should write,” writer and programmer James Somers described this process as creating a mental bucket for an idea, thereby unleashing a magnetic force between that idea and the world:
... See moreWhen I have a piece of writing in mind, what I have, in fact, is a mental bucket: an attractor for and generator of thought. It’s like a
WePresent | A creative manifesto by Natasha Khan
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Art as child, creativity as birth
think of your ideas as people / your children. I want my ideas to go hang out with other ideas, I don't want them hanging out in a room full of schedules and todo lists
Now, the spark file itself is not all that unusual: that's why Moleskins or Evernote are so useful to so many people. But the key habit that I've tried to cultivate is this: every three or four months, I go back and re-read the entire spark file. And it's not an inconsequential document: it's almost fifty pages of hunches at this point, the length... See more
Steven Johnson • The Spark File
Whether my creative ideas are rooted in an immediate context window or not a box is required. my head is also a box, but not a good one at storing ideas