Ideas
A list of things I want to make. Some of them might become Projects.
- Spotify sort playlist by album cover colors/darkness
- Location-based app to find friends at festivals
- Capture-the-Flag with BLE-Beacons
- AI-music-generator
- Custom Font (https://fontforge.org/en-US/)
- Gist API generator
- Digital advent calendar based on JSON config
- E-Cajon
- Redirect API service
- Fuzzy matching
- Humble Key Distributor
- E-paper Status Display
- Loading… Facefilter
Ideation
Ideas are created within ourselves and are triggered by certain things
Subconscious mind vs. Conscious mind
- subconscious generates ideas
- conscious mind form these ideas to coherent thoughts
How to kickstart the subconscious mind:
- Take a break
- Move to a different location
- See other people
- Let go of ideas
CREATIVITY ≠ARTISTRY
- creativity is problem solving, with relevance and novelty
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JoAtxSrmkg
Methods
- Brainstorming
- Prioritize quantity, really good ideas can come after really dumb ideas
- Cluster similar ideas after initial collection
- Decide on winning ideas and run another brainstorming round based off these ideas
- Oblique Strategies
I.D.E.A.
Four Steps of intuitive thinking by Zach Freedman
- Inspiration
- Downtime
- Exploration
- Action
