Tejas Gawande
- âEverything I do is just personal taste and itâs what [my book The Creative Act] is about. Really, for [people and artists] to trust in themselves. Make something that speaks to themselves. And hopefully someone else will like it. But you canât second-guess your own taste for what someone else is going to like. It won ât be good. Weâre not smart eno... See more
from Write For Yourself
⨠Where great ideas come from
Trust your taste. Do whatâs personal to you, take it as far you can go.
Talking or writing about the things you're interested in is a good way to generate new ideas. When you try to put ideas into words, a missing idea creates a sort of vacuum that draws it out of you. Indeed, there's a kind of thinking that can only be done by writing.
from How to Do Great Work
Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy
from The Top of My Todo List
A palliative care nurse called Bronnie Ware made a list of the biggest regrets of the dying
- A lot of care went into curating the environment around the childrenâfascinating guests were invited, libraries were built, machines were brought home and disassembledâbut the children were left with a lot of time to freely explore the interests that arose within these milieus.
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See morefrom Childhoods of Exceptional People
⨠Where great ideas come from
Exception people in their childhood had time to roam about and relied heavily on self-directed learning
- âStrategy salonsâ or ânerd clubsâ can be powerful tools for generating ideas and fostering innovation. Use your nerd club as a safe space to explore half-formed ideas. Limit it to a few engaged individuals who genuinely want to participate. Set ground rules for discussions, like using âyes, andâ to build on ideas and leaving negative feedback aside... See more
from Alex Komoroske by Lenny Rachitsky
⨠Where great ideas come from
Nerd club as a safe space to explore half-formed ideas
Once again I was struck by one of the miracles of the cognitive processâthat the act of writing will summon from the buried past exactly what we need exactly when we need it. Memory and intuition and chance associations will always generate a certain percentage of what any writer writes. The remainder is generated by reason.
from Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All by William Zinsser
- Where will we see luxury software transform markets? Already, in the consumer productivity space, weâre starting to see âluxuryâ email clients, calendars, browsers, and search engines emerge. While all of these capabilities are freely accessible to consumers and rather commoditized, companies like Superhuman for email, Cron (now Notion) for calenda... See more
from Disruptive Interfaces & the Rise of Luxury Software by Scott Belsky
⨠Where great ideas come from
Luxury software. In the world of luxury software, designers will shift from being âinterface buildersâ to âsoftware artists.â
Great ideas come from stretching our imagination and focusing on the core need. How can we improve performance for people who spend the most time doing X or care about how they are perceived doing X?
- Read, but donât just read. Read the best book you can find.
Write, but donât just write. Write the best idea you can conceive.from 3-2-1: On the power of going for it, the value of sharing what you know, and how to figure out what you really want by James Clear
⨠Where great ideas come from
Commitment to the best.
- The mathematical genius Alexander Grothendieck once had a metaphor for solving problems. He suggested that instead of forcing open an impossibly hard kernel with a hammer and chisel, one should simply let it sit in water and wait. Over time, the shell softens and opens with ease. This is also true in writing; time is the only non-substitutable ingr... See more
from Epiphanies Come From Waiting
⨠Where great ideas come from
Epiphanies come from waiting. You need patience, to let your ideas transform into what they could be.