Idea Recycling

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Projects Over Categories

Instead of organizing ideas by category – such as "psychology," "marketing," or "economics" – which leads to silos that they can't escape from, organize your ideas according to the projects where they will be most useful and actionable. Organizing your ideas according to which ...

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Slow Burns

Stop completing your projects via "heavy lifts" – grueling slogs of painful work where you create everything from scratch. There is another way – you can slowly gather ideas, in the background and over time, using "slow burns." Once the project gets underway, you'll already ha ...

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