IMO - Abstraction is almost a prerequisite for creating anything interesting or innovative. Meaning: my best ideas always come from playing in non-traditional

IMO - Abstraction is almost a prerequisite for creating anything interesting or innovative. Meaning: my best ideas always come from playing in non-traditional representational systems within a certain medium. Particularly drawing. I find sketching/scribbling/drawing things generates ideas that I could not have thought of by just writing/brainstorming. You may even be able to apply it to the example of how software development models have jumped paradigms into mainstream business management (eg, agile teams). Bret's onto something here.