Paul and Doug: Your suggestions are interesting and I suppose you are trying to capture only "butterflying ideas".
But please don't capture the butterlflies themselves. Admire them, talk with them, etc - but don't capture them, please... Artur ------------- --- [email protected] wrote: > Doug, > > Thanks for sharing that bit. Great reminder of an > old principle. > > An old friend at the CPSI (Creative Problem Solving > Institute) used something > similar to write his several books. He had a large > pegboard in his office > that had big manila envelopes attached to hooks, > like you might find in > someone's woodworking or tool shop. On the outside > of the envelope was the > subject/title and whenever he had an idea or > inspiration, he'd write it down and stuff > it into the appropriate envelope. When it got "fat > enough", he knew he had > a book. He'd take it down, organize the disparate > notes, and write the book. > > A program I led inside a company for many years used > business-card sized > "Idea Traps" and passed them out to the foremen and > hourly workers by the > thousands. It was part of an effort to improve > productivity and reduce costs. > Worked quite well. Many projects saving literally > millions of dollars in the > aggregate grew out of those cards. > > Paul Everett > > * > * > ========================================================== > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of [email protected]: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
