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Using combinatorial mechanics to generate new ideas is a powerful technique, perhaps first popularized by Ramon Llull in his Ars Magna (https://en.m.wikipedia.o
by Jun8 4y ago
Using combinatorial mechanics to generate new ideas is a powerful technique, perhaps first popularized by Ramon Llull in his Ars Magna (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Llull). Similar techniques are also used in TRIZ (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ).
The bottleneck here is to have the domain knowledge and experience to judge which generated ideas are good.
- sargstuff 4y agoor enough connections outside of one's area of interest to generate comments about where the idea is considered good/$$$$
- surprisetalk 4y agoWow, thank you for the amazing links. > The bottleneck here is to have the domain knowledge and experience to judge which generated ideas are good. This comment reminds me of my grandpa. I occasionally call him when I have a "brilliant" idea, and he dismembers the idea with simple questions. It's like magic. Even if my idea sits outside his domain knowledge, he has an incredible gift for finding fatal flaws in things. This gift has proven to be lucrative over his lifetime, and I suspect it makes him deeply unhappy. I'd like to acquire this power too, one day.