Andyʼs working notes

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Where do ideas come from?

  • Powerful innovations often focus on creating new paradigms, not solving problems of the current context
  • Insight through making
    • Effective system design requires insights drawn from serious contexts of use
    • Insight through making prefers bricolage to big design up front
  • Evergreen note-writing helps insight accumulate
    • Brainstorming may often substitute for missing insight accretion systems