- Interactive user inputs
- Humans are tool builders
- All things are already possible, but they don’t seem plausible
- Metaphorical thinking
- Media for thinking the unthinkable
- Black Box Method
- Physical manipulation of tactile objects as an aid to solving abstract problems
- Contextual priming
- Tools extend our thinking beyond the bounds of our skulls
- Creating order from disorder
- Progress is abstraction
- Lateral thinking
- Bloom’s taxonomy
- All artificial things are designed
- Invert
- People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole
- Inverse the content creation
- Innovation as a game
- Metaphor as a service for building block techs to stimulate ideas
- Why thinking with a partner is beneficial?
- State of flow
- Creativity
- Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them
- Machine should focus on solving arithmetic problems and people should focus on higher-level issues - such as why the answer was needed
- Glue is one of the best tools for inventors
- How do zeros and ones turn into the internet?
- You and I have some thoughts that might not have words in our vocabulary to express
- Science vs Engineering problem
- Means end strategy vs domain knowledge strategy
- Zen of Dendro
- Humans are evolved for pattern recognition, not for thinking
- Conjunctive binding
- We are far better and more experienced at spatial thinking than at abstract thinking
- Intersubjective reality
- Detachment gain
- Amplification through simplification
- Lot of people tend to have similar ideas around the same time simply because they are facing the same facts and questions
- When it comes to ideas, democracy doesn’t work
- Problem Solving
- Human constantly seeking in efficiency in everything
- Thought Legos
- First principles thinking
- SCAMPER
- Product Dissection
- Problem with categorisation
- Open Innovation
- Oblique Strategies
- Innovator vs Inventer
- If you sell water in a desert, does it matter what people think of you?
- Iconoclast
- Design
- Association
- Building vitamin or painkiller
- Highly composable system provides components that can be assembled in various combinations for the use case
- Expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then to bring those things into what you are doing
- Find the one thing that the customer come to you and everything else is a distraction
- Pretotypes - fake it before you make it to test the demand
- To generate new idea - cross pollination & deliberate mutation
- Design thinking
- Thinking
- Is the thinking in the pencil?
- Invention vs Discovery
- Is math discovered or invented?
- Figuring out how to think about the problem
- Hegelian dialectics
- Fundamental ideas of the universe
- Create something for the existing products
- Anything that are not forbidden by the laws of physics are possible
- Contrarian bet
- Courage Is in Far Shorter Supply than Genius