On having more interesting ideas, pt. 2

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Cutlery designed by Salvador Dalí I wrote some thoughts about how to have more interesting ideas two years ago. Since then I have had the privilege of talking about the idea craft with several people who are better at it than I am. So here are a few additional thoughts. They are sometimes in tension with each other, so they are best seen as a set of tools you can use to probe different parts of idea space. Giving yourself constraints is helpful when searching for ideas, especially if the constraints are annoying. I’ve been thinking about Dogme 95, the manifesto Lars von Trier and Thomas…

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