Sat.Oct 17, 2015

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #278

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Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll ( BitCurrent , Year One Labs , GigaOM , Human 2.0 , Solve For Interesting , the author of Complete Web Monitoring , Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks and Lean Analytics ), Hugh McGuire ( PressBooks , LibriVox , iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist's Manifesto ) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share o

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Picking Your Brain For Better Ideas

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Being an original thinker is near-impossible. Combining ideas to come up with something original is more likely. It's a truth. The best creatives are the ones who are able to find a new middle in between two (or more) ideas that already exist. This is the kind of work that makes people smirk, remember and feel warm. The challenge, of course, is in finding enough inspiration. and that it's balanced so that there's not too many inputs (this creates analysis/paralysis. when there's too much of some