Category Archives: Brainstorming
10 Questions About Cathedral Balloons
The next time you’re in a public place with high ceilings, look up. Look for the dead balloons, the ones that didn’t make it outside, the ones that got stuck in the rafters. The ones that strived to touch heaven but were held back by their heavy coloured casings. Look for the shrunken and shriveled [...]
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How to Brainstorm Right Now (republished)
On January 22, 2005, I wrote the following precursor to 10 Ideas In 10 Minutes called How to Brainstorm Right Now! I wrote it in my moleskin book while giving my daughter a bath. Previously, I had used her as an excuse, a barrier, to getting anything creative done. Sometimes a barrier can become a [...]
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Hey, I Just Wanted To Say Thanks For That Stuff You Made. I Really Liked It.
I’ve been listening to an interesting audio book read and edited by Seth Godin, called The Big Moo. It is a series of essays on being remarkable, written by some heavy hitters like Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point and Blink) and Guy Kawasaki (author of Art of the Start). There are over 30 [...]
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Ten Ideas for Where to Find Future Celebrity Baby Names
1. Baking books. Children named after types of bread.
Pumpernickle
Rye
Keiser
2. Periodic Table. Whipper-snappers named after cool elements from the periodic table.
Californium
Tungsten
Boron
3. Martha Stewart Colours Rugrats named after domestic diva swatches.
Shoji
Beryl
Cameo
4. Oranges Ankle-biters named after varieties of oranges.
Satsuma
Mandarin
Clementine
5. Architectural Books Wee-willie-wonkas named after terms used in buildings
Transom
Ashlar
Mortise
6. Unix Reference Mini-geeks named after a programming language which will [...]
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WARNING: Mirrors!
D bought a little IKEA bathroom mirror. Inside the package (it’s a mirror, but you still have to put it together) was a paper with a dire warning. I decided to apply my atrophying 10 Ideas in 10 Minutes™ to come up with titles for this wonderful work of paranoid and litigious art:
1) The Deathstar [...]
Top Ten Worst Blog Book Titles
10. Blog-o-rific!
9. The Blogs Must Be Crazy
8. Go, Blog. Go!
7. My Life as a Blog
6. The Blog Whisperer
5. The Complete Book of Blog Breeding
4. Blogging for Apples
3. It’s a Blog, Blog, Blog, Blog World
2. The Curious Incident of the Blog in the Night-Time
1. Who Let the Blogs Out
Biz Stone is a great blogger and a [...]
The Official Rules
Here is a simple process called 10 Ideas in 10 Minutes™, or 10 in 10™ for short. It is a simple creative approach to creativity problem solving. Try it right now!
Get out your stopwatch (it’s a selling feature on almost every new phone), or set the timer on the microwave, or look at the analog [...]
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The First 10 Creative People Who Come to Mind (in no particular order of importance or stature)