[HN Gopher] Put it on the crazy pile: Ideas and creativity
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Put it on the crazy pile: Ideas and creativity
Author : Topolomancer
Score : 69 points
Date : 2022-08-20 17:14 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| malux85 wrote:
| Now push Ideas.md to GitHub and share it!
| mmcconnell1618 wrote:
| I really like the notion that you capture the idea at a point in
| time but purposely revisit the list on a regular basis. I've had
| similar experiences where coming back to an idea after a few
| months allows me to express it in a more refined way. Capturing
| the initial thought in a simple text file reduces the mental
| burden and allows temporal arbitrage.
| Cupertino95014 wrote:
| Totally right. What no one's mentioned yet is the immense value
| of someone who can listen to your crazy idea, and just play
| around with it. Someone who accepts that many of your ideas, or
| even most, are crazy, but you never know which one might not be.
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| Or if it IS crazy, maybe there's some variation that isn't.
| boilerupnc wrote:
| Totally agree with the sentiment of this post. My crazy pile is
| named "My Half-Bakery".
|
| I revisit it often to refine and ponder and/or add. It has helped
| inspire patents and given me insights in connecting things that
| otherwise would nag me to a point of being distracted. I've found
| the "Lateral Thinking" ideation approach championed by Edward De
| Bono [0] helpful as a tool to realize disconnected concepts that
| nag me as related in someway means their is something interesting
| there. While not always obvious, after entering the vague thought
| it gives me a mystery to solve as to "why do I sense a
| relationship there". Many times that eventually leads to an "aha"
| and then validation that it feels so obvious now in retrospect.
| Those moments are rare but exhilarating when they happen.
|
| [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking
| throwaways85989 wrote:
| To much rationality or filtering early on in creativity detrains
| your mind from being creative.
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| No dopamine on discovery of the new, prevents that circuitry from
| running after a while. Write it down, filter it later. Celebrate
| even ridiculous ideas and approaches, consider them not "failed"
| nonsense, but in-between-steps as your subconcious works on the
| next, better solution. Let self-critique not be negative
| "Ridiculous, never would work with the physics we got" but more
| "constructive" -"that would be great if we could get it to fly".
|
| Also remember, that your subconscious works with the knowledge it
| got. It needs input, to create strange mashups. Get your input
| way outside of your field to not be stuck in the solutions of
| your peers.
| EliasWatson wrote:
| I use Obsidian for this exact purpose. Anytime I have an idea, I
| open up Obsidian, hit ctrl+n for a new note, give it a title, tag
| it with '#idea', and write whatever I think is nessecary to
| understand it in the future. Since each idea is a separate file,
| I won't be tempted to worry about ordering. Obsidian also lets me
| link related ideas together and it's easy to find an idea again
| in the future and add some notes to it.
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| Like the author, I've found that writing down my ideas greatly
| increases the amount/frequency of new ideas I have. I went from
| having a decent new idea maybe once a week to now having multiple
| decent new ideas a day. The problem now is focusing on one idea
| at a time without getting distracted by all the shiny new ideas.
| computator wrote:
| As someone who keeps an ideas file as well as files for
| quotations, new words I learned, and Hacker News submissions I
| didn't have time to read, I think it's freeing for my mind but I
| find that I never go back to review them. I found it surprising
| that the OP has the discipline to set aside time once a month to
| go back and review his file.
| mentos wrote:
| I have a folder on Dropbox called "Highdeas" just for this. For
| me it's not even about logging them so that I can come back to
| them but just so that I can move on.
| matthewfcarlson wrote:
| I hate the feeling of forgetting an idea but also have a hard
| time finishing something before a new thing comes along. So it's
| a bit of a catch 22. I want to write down the ideas, but if it's
| written down I tend to start researching and figuring out code
| structure in my head.
| genjipress wrote:
| In the golden years of Disney's animation industry, the animators
| kept a bulletin board out in the hallway between the studios
| where each animator worked. This board was dubbed "the goodie
| board". If you came up with a concept, a sketch, a shot, that
| didn't work for whatever you were doing but which you liked
| anyway, you could pin it to the goodie board, where others were
| welcome to take it wholesale or crib from it.
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| I kept this idea for my own use. If I have an idea in a story I'm
| working on and it doesn't quite fit, but I like it anyway, I save
| it to my own goodie board. On rainy days I poke through it, and
| oftentimes I find something worth reusing in another context.
| xipho wrote:
| Love it, I have the same. "GoodIdeas" in my Vim potwiki(0). Most
| of them I shared in passing, maybe one or two I hold on to
| actually being special. Have often thought of an anonymous
| twitter feed as an alternative.
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| [0] https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1018.
| metadat wrote:
| How does this compare with VimWiki?
|
| https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
| xipho wrote:
| There is no markup in the former, you just get highlighted
| words whenever there is any (capitalized) camel case word.
| Hit enter on the word and you get to the new file. Super
| lightweight, super efficient.
|
| I don't render most of the notes I take, but will write draft
| in markdown from time to time. The wiki is in a git repo, of
| course, that I commit to once in a while.
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| BubbleRings wrote:
| I _hate_ the feeling of "oh I had a great idea yesterday, that
| was so cool, what was it again? Oh no, is it gone?"
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| So I also try to make sure I get them jotted down. I used to use
| Dropbox, I think I will switch back to it again.
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