Totally agree with the sentiment of this post. My crazy pile is named “My Half-Bakery”. I revisit it often to refine and ponder and/or add. It has helped insp

Totally agree with the sentiment of this post. My crazy pile is named “My Half-Bakery”. I revisit it often to refine and ponder and/or add. It has helped inspire patents and given me insights in connecting things that otherwise would nag me to a point of being distracted. I’ve found the “Lateral Thinking” ideation approach championed by Edward De Bono [0] helpful as a tool to realize disconnected concepts that nag me as related in someway means their is something interesting there. While not always obvious, after entering the vague thought it gives me a mystery to solve as to “why do I sense a relationship there”. Many times that eventually leads to an “aha” and then validation that it feels so obvious now in retrospect. Those moments are rare but exhilarating when they happen. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking