Tag: ideas
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In her August 2025 Wild Geese podcast episode, How to Manage Multiple Interests & Actually CREATE Something, Anna Howard of Wild Geese goes into her research process. I find it very interesting that, like me, she sees research as a leisure activity! Anyway, the Sublime app she’s talking about is very interesting. It’s a much…
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Great essay by Anu Atluru on the concept of “Franchise Thinking.” Atulru writes: “Franchise thinking is the tendency to fit everything into ideas that already have names, audiences, and tribal alignment rather than to look for new ones.” The big bold point in this essay: “Too many people are making something already known more known…
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We are all born creative. Creativity is inherently what makes us human. If you solve a problem, you are creative. If you turn your idea into something that you can share with others all the better. Sometimes you feel compelled to create at the worst possible times. But, if you put it off too long…
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When I stumbled upon an early draft titled “Hierarchy of Ideas,” I realized that I had the bones of a schema that can sit alongside my CRAP framework as a kind of “compass” for orienting ideas. So, I decided to build my original ramblings into more useful, straightforward terms. I’ve thought a lot about what…
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I’ve dabbled in philosophy a lot over the years, including watching many philosophy videos on Khan Academy. Yet I’ve never actually sat and read many original philosophical works. When I have, I find myself lost. It seems like I can’t put myself into the right state of mind very often to understand the profound ideas…