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Today, my question is, “Do you use a framework to systematically come up with ideas?” I used to teach Project Work at the pre-tertiary level. My students were given a topic and challenged to come up with innovative ideas to solve the problem.
My biggest problem is I always have too many ideas in my head. Most of the time, I write them down and wait to see if they return.
Often times, I will give them away to people who are working on similar things, even when it’s a great one I want to get to someday, took me a long time to come to terms with this. I firmly believe now that being a facilitator of ideas is far more important than keeping them to yourself. This just reaffirms why I believe more ideas come to me lately.
Do you systematically use such frameworks for ideation or do your ideas just rise to the surface of your consciousness seemingly out of nowhere?
Idea generation is a ton of fun in a room with a whiteboard, no doubt. But I’ve learned doing PlebLab for these many years it's much better to bring thought-out ideas to the surface before this, especially if it's something new.
Let me explain…
Lately, I have been trying to think through this idea I have had for a year, initially last year, when I would think about it, I couldn't visualize it. It stumped me; the longer I thought about it, it bothered me. It also wasn’t an idea that I know I needed to do because it was “a nice to have.” So I shelved it in my head. Had someone came up to me during that time with a similar idea I would have gave it to them to do. But it never happened.
However, late last year, when I was listening to the advice of a lot of new people that came into my life, I began taking what they were telling me at face value. Because it was something I heard before, just said different.
Again, I went back to looking at this idea again. With new information and time passing, I can now visualize how it will look in my head and possibly play out in a few different scenarios without backstops...now in March, it is starting to feel right as things have just naturally fallen into place for this idea to come to life. Again will see only time will tell, thing is not to force things with ideas. Let it flow naturally.
So to recap three things I've learned when coming up with ideas before shelving them.
- Look for the signs.
This is important when optimizing for understanding if it's the right time. Let it flow. God will always naturally guide you to the place your supposed to be.
- Do the hard research and find key data to support this idea.
This will help so much when having to explain to others and give you some peace of mind. But ultimately it’s good to have the data to back up a lot of the “flow state” process. Aquinas often used the metaphor of a two-story building to illustrate this concept. I’ve written more about it here.
- Make sure it excites and scares you at the same time.
This one I just learned to trust more and more especially in the last year. I used to avoid big ideas that did this to me, but now, not so much.
- Inception
Before going through with any idea talk about it with people who want to help you tear it down while it’s still in a dream state. It’s the only way to see if the idea is firmly planted in your mind. This will be helpful when you finally go through with it.
Hope this helps, honestly this is the stuff me and @k00b talk about all the time.
Worked on improving my multisig setup yesterday but decided to do it after getting some sleep before doing something wrong.
Then I dreamed that somehow, there were unconfirmed tx leaving my multisig setup and that I don't know how to bump fees and reverse the txs using Sparrow Wallet. I felt rising dread that I won't be able to stop this and lose most of my bitcoins. But then I noticed after a while that this isn't real. There was a progress bar regarding the unconfirmed tx which is not how bitcoin works.
So I decided to go to sleep in my dream and my friend who was with me thought I was going crazy to just accept that my bitcoins are gone and go to sleep lmao
But turns out it was really just a dream :) An unpleasant one, but just a dream.
Btw, would bumping fees even help? The attacker has nothing to lose, if they are quick to react, they would just bump the fees again.
When I woke up, I thought about OP_VAULT.