TAG: ideas
I Like to Answer Questions Well
"In an earlier video, Levitt talked about how hard it is for economists to make good predictions about the macroeconomy. He continues that theme in this new piece, explaining why he’d rather tackle a much smaller question and try to answer it well."
The Social Graph In The Second Inning
"What I want is a single aggregated social graph that I control that has all of this data in it. That "meta social graph" can then be applied by ME to the interface I want on top off all my messaging systems."
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the best thing i learned today
Brilliant idea for a blog.
"I’ve found if you’re looking to understand complex concepts like “stickiness of ideas�, it’s a good idea to check out how things work in the physical, natural world."
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"A Rich Idea might have instant appeal but it also has hidden depths, emotional resonance, inherent drama. If a Big Idea is like a high concept movie then a Rich Idea is like the premise for a soap opera or a series."
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"The "long table" is a physical manifestation of networked culture. Information is less driven by hierarchy and process and more driven through connections, collaboration, transparency and as Noah aptly put it in his blog, moments of serrendipity."
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Doc Searls on opening up your ideas.
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"I collect a ton of information, then organize it, then I map it to the task I’m trying to do. Then I repeat."
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"Droog is a brand and a mentality: design of products that do what they should and think about why they’re doing it in the first place: function? fun? wit? criticism? All of the above?"
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Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials
30 suggestions from Jack Kerouac
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"Whether you have your eye on a plum promotion, a plump pay rise or just a happier workplace, begin your quest here with our tips on making more of your nine-to-five this year. To kick off, Seth Godin says being average in 2007 just won't do ."
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"Due to media hype, MySpace is perceived on a scale next to Fox (as AOL was to Timer-Warner), but maybe it should be considered more like like Lost (which turns Yahoo into The Simpson's)."
"The best things cannot be told because they transcend thought."
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"Let's all expect more from the businesses from which we buy, and expect more of the companies where we work. Marketers and executives: how can you can make your brands more worthwhile?"
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Idea Factories: Renegade Marketing Group
Story about Renegade (where I work) and how it's an idea factory.
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"Today, ideas need to have multiple layers and meaning because you are no longer talking to a single person, but rather a group who are working together."
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My printer, my social letterbox
What if the printer took some cues from social media and allowed your friends and family to print to it remotely?
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Have strong opinions, but hold them weakly "because, otherwise, it undermines your ability to “see� and “hear� evidence that clashes with your opinions."
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Brainstorming under attack: 8 errors in the WSJ
"It is hard to imagine that an institution as smart at the WSJ should be capable of generating so many stupidities about brainstorming. And this at a time when the corporation is having to flourish in an innovation economy where creativity is the new nam
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Cubicle Culture: How brainstorming works best
A look at the pros and cons of brainstorming.
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How do I hire geniuses without sharing my idea?
"Ask any creative person -- especially a writer -- for the most loathsome sentence in the world. (It's 'You're past deadline.') But the second is 'I have this great idea!'"
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May Contain Non-Design Content
"But the great thing about graphic design is that it is almost always about something else . . And if I can't get excited about whatever that something else is, I really have trouble doing good work as a designer."
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"The myth of The Great Idea is a dangerous one. It makes you constantly search and search for something that you'll probably never find."
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The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all
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"In an exclusive book excerpt from the general manager of Ideo, we meet the personality types it takes to keep creativity thriving--and the devil's advocate at bay."
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Writing Inspiration at the Press of a Button
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The definitive collection of idea generation methods
"This website lists and explains every idea generation method I've encountered during the past 15 years."
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GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS?
Kottke riffs on the idea of a web operating system
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Essential Resources for Creativity (163 techniques + 30 tips + books!)
"Techniques (163 of them!) by Mycoted should help you with creative thinking - those are the toolbox for you when you get stuck on developing your ideas."
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Seth Godin: "One of the implications of the Long Tail is that you don't know what's going to work. That it's easy to launch stuff, hard to figure out where it's going to land."
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Some quick tips that might help one become more productive
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There are two buttons my screenless iPod shuffle really needs: Next Track and More Like This.
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What is the one thing everyone should learn about science? Spiked asked 250 scientists - here we bring you some of the most provocative responses
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Why don't authors put their indexes online? A book index is a perfect example of something that is much more efficient with a search function.
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Incremental vs. revolutionary improvements
"If you're competing for market share, with products or services that are hard to differentiate, incremental improvements might be a waste of time and resources!"
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The Internet Revolution has Little to do with Technology
It's all about ideas
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Including sunscreen wipes and personized roses
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