Collect

Epiphanies

Trained senses

Three B's of creativity

Bed
Bath
Bus

Reading

De-correlate

The originality of an idea depends on the obsurity of sources.

If you curate a sufficiently unique information diet, you'll have a combination of ideas nobody has ever seen before.

Outside the spotlight

Everything that happens in the world vs what the news covers

Escape the time-bias

Consuming things created in the past 24 hours
Look
How I write a long-form essay

Conversations

Experiences

Connect

Content Triangle

Conversation > Share (email, twitter) > Create > Distribute

Be a reporter

Frack for ideas

Original idea => why => why => original thesis

Create

Treat your brain like a toddler and then be a hardass

Divergence

Convergence

Three Knives of editing

Axe mode
Knife mode
Chisel mode

When you write, talk. Talking helps to structure ideas but you don't have the verbal range. How to compensate? Diversify your language.

Words people know but don't say

Diversify your vernacular - David Perrel

The problem of ideas

Capture

Eureka moment

Get them out of your head!

The birdsong technique

I have no original ideas

Steal Like an artist
Scroll through Twitter - ideas I'd like to steal

Magic Insight Logging Framework

Coal mining

An active/deliberate idea of finding what you like to copy.

Copy to from one artist is plagarism, copy for many it's inspiration.