Nice list of tricks. I always try to remember one simple truth of problem solving and creativity: our minds can create nothing. All we can do is find connection

Nice list of tricks. I always try to remember one simple truth of problem solving and creativity: our minds can create nothing. All we can do is find connections between things. We consider it genius when people make a great leap of a connection, but that is usually achieved by the hard work of finding the right inputs. Shannon understood that as well as anyone.