Adam Privett refines...

  The best idea machine that you have is you.  Once you know how to look at a particular situation and yield benefit from your observation, you will be able to look at other situations with a similar mindset and produce similar results.  As Steven Johnson says, "if you want more inspiration, get more parts on the table" As "the father of systematic economics, David Ricardo, is believed to have said once, 'profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity.'" Simply put, "most suppliers...Do not think."  This is because businesses are stuck in the flow created by predecessors who had some good ideas of their own, but whose efficacy was limited by the variability of that time period.    So don't be surprised when your ideas are not welcomed.   When presenting your refinements, it's important to show tact, especially when you're a subordinate.   And don't take it personally, and remember that a good id...

  I have an idea of pursuing a line of thought.   I believe it’s called linear thinking.   I might have derived that term from math, though I am unfamiliar with it’s mathematical operation.   This is clearly not a scientific application of the process of linear thinking.   This is just some idea that I have in my mind and I thought that it could be beneficial to pursue a path of adjacent thought.   Follow the rabbit down the hole, sort of speak.   But where do I begin?   Certainly it matters since that will be the starting point an opus of the thought line, or line of thought.   Perhaps I have already started it.   Perhaps the starting point was the decision to pursue a line of thought to it’s conclusion.   But where does one conclude a line of thought based on pursuing the line of thought.   This reminds of me of Martin Heidegger’s attempt at describing Dasein—or being in time.   How do I describe being in time beyond the...