Slow Burns
Stop completing your projects via "heavy lifts" – grueling slogs of painful work where you create everything from scratch. There is another way – you can slowly gather ideas, in the background and ove...
24 Maalis 20208min
Projects Over Categories
Instead of organizing ideas by category – such as "psychology," "marketing," or "economics" – which leads to silos that they can't escape from, organize your ideas according to the projects where they...
24 Maalis 20208min
Idea Recycling
Ideas are not single-use only. They can outlive the projects they were originally a part of. Every document or deliverable you create represents valuable thinking you've done, and can be recycled and ...
24 Maalis 20209min
The Capture Habit
Don't play "catch and release" with your thoughts. Your ideas have value, but tend to arrive when you least expect them. By making it a habit to "capture" and save them, you can allow them to live for...
24 Maalis 202010min
Borrowed Creativity
Creativity is not a mysterious force to be conjured from nothing – it emerges organically from practical efforts to gather, organize, and digest your own ideas, and the ideas of others. Before you cre...
24 Maalis 20209min
