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November 11, 2019

Getting new ideas perspectives

Some meaningful tips for new ideas, solutions, creative thinking




1. Learn a lot of facts
2. Have deep knowledge of the background material
3. Spend time thinking about the problem
4. A curiosity about fundamental characteristics – what makes things tick (big picture and not details)
5. Strong drive to want to find out the answers
6. Pick your work colleagues based on their ability to help simulate good ideas
7. Narrow the scope of the problem if you are not making progress
8. Moving to a new situation will allow you to change your behavior since there aren’t preconceived expectations of your behavior.
9. Similarity to a known problem (experience helps)
10. Structural analysis (break problem into pieces); solve a microproblem first and then build up – divide & conquer
11. Ask conceptual questions about everyday things
12. Simplify and deep dive, Spend a lot of time reading
13. Work in isolation before participating in a group
14. You got to be a learning machine to improve your thinking
15. Drive Decision based on facts, behavior, intuition, apply lessons learned in the past
https://spinlab.me/2017/11/19/isaac-asimov-asks-how-do-people-get-new-ideas/
https://spinlab.me/2017/07/29/r-w-hamming-on-creativity/
https://spinlab.me/2017/07/30/claude-shannons-1952-lecture-on-creative-thinking/
https://qr.ae/TWgnaR
Another Interesting Read - Idea Generation - https://blog.samaltman.com/idea-generation
Good Environment to discuss ideas
Optimistic people
Think without the constraints
Good feel for the future
"Stay away from people who are world-weary and belittle your ambitions"
"You want to be able to project yourself 20 years into the future, and then think backwards from there. Trust yourself—20 years is a long time; it’s ok if your ideas about it seem pretty radical."
"Finally, a good test for an idea is if you can articulate why most people think it’s a bad idea, but you understand what makes it good"
Technical Debt and Product Success - https://medium.com/@romanpichler/technical-debt-and-product-success-42ec1c5718a7
view raw NewIdeas.txt hosted with ❤ by GitHub
Happy Learning!!!

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