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246 - Ideaflow - Jeremy Utley

You Are Not So Smart

Is That the Best Answer?

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The problems we face today don't have one right answer. There's no empirical evidence that suggests that the first idea I think of is my best idea. And yet my tendency is to settle on it. You might basically leave all of this amazing potential on the table because I've moved on. It's got to be something related to a combination of the combination that brings you.

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.

Jeremy Utley: https://www.jeremyutley.design
Ideaflow: https://www.ideaflow.design
Stanford d.school: https://dschool.stanford.edu
How Minds Change: www.davidmcraney.com/howmindschangehome
Show Notes: www.youarenotsosmart.com
Newsletter: https://davidmcraney.substack.com
Jeremy Utley’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeremyutley
David McRaney’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidmcraney
YANSS Twitter: https://twitter.com/notsmartblog
Berkeley Alembic Event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-minds-change-with-david-mcraney-tickets-443811591417

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