"I didn't realize that I had stumbled into the very thing that I was looking for, for the most part," he says. "There's just a lot of pessimism, cynicism, and fear and unsettling weirdness around." But there are people in the world who are really optimistic about making the world the thing we thought it could be,. And they're just sort of doing it.
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.