Idea genesis
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007A couple of days ago I struck on an idea for a new search system which would consistently produce results more relevant than Google. So in this post I’m going to detail the process I used to get this idea in the first place and others like it.
I don’t believe that ideas “just happen” or “pop into the head”, I’m very much of the view that we develop them with repeatable steps. This is what this article is about – how to generate ideas.
I started thinking about this by noticing that most good business ideas can be traced back to a source (which I call their “idea genesis”) in one of three ways, in this post I examine those three ideas, and then explain how I use them to generate new ideas, including the Google-beater I mention above.
