Remote work is being blamed for a stagnation of innovation stagnation of creativity. The remote environment affords us an opportunity for immensely more unexpected input but it requires that i'm willing to look away from the screen and go on a walk or play catch with my kids. There are kind of antiquated expectations around the definition of work meaning when i'm at home work or you know remotely working not even remotely working.
In this episode we sit down with Jeremy Utley of the Stanford d.school to discuss his new book, Ideaflow, which is all about how to create a practice for producing and trading ideas in massive quantities – whether in an organization or as an individual entrepreneur or content-creator – along with a system for sorting the garbage from the gold. We discuss, among many other things, why it is important to focus on input more than output, how to stop obsessing over quality while generating quantity, and peanut butter pumps.