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• rayalez · May 19, 2015 · Recommends

  …learn more patterns(experience). The same goes for the point 3 - the more often you use/recall some information, the better you will be at it. Regarding the points 1 and 2 - I highly recommend a book "Serious Creativity" by Edward De Bono, learn and practice skills this book is explaining. This is the best book on creativity I've ever encountered, it addresses exactly these issues. Besides that, a practical advice would…

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• rayalez · Apr 9, 2015 · Recommends

  …of evolution, absolutely fantastic book. - The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. Despite the stigma, and people thinking that Machhiavellian = "evil", I've found this book extremely clever and wise. - Serious Creativity by Edward De Bono The best book on creativity and the process of generating ideas that I'm aware of. - Abundance This is a very inspiring and optimistic book about the future of technology. Entrepreneurhsip:…

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• garbowza · Jul 31, 2007 · Recommends

  Edward de Bono, the so-called grandfather of creativity, describes this approach in his groundbreaking book "Serious Creativity." Basically you always want to generate ideas separately, then expand on them in a group. The reason is that a group approach from the start will squash somewhat crazy concepts before sufficient time…

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• rayalez · Aug 19, 2014 · Recommends

  I can recommend a great book: Serious Creativity by Edward De Bono. I am very interested in this topic and this is the best book I've ever read about it.

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• rayalez · Nov 4, 2014 · Recommends

  There's a lot of great suggestions in this topic. Here's what I want to add: > "Serious Creativity" by Edward de Bono - excellent book on this topic. Explains a lot about inventing new ideas. > /r/SomebodyMakeThis - subreddit where people post ideas for apps and projects. > Look for new emerging…

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• plinkplonk · May 13, 2019 · Recommends

  …there is a risk of making mental models fit the known outcome here, so one has to be aware of that) EDIT: (not the same as mental models, but since someone mentioned ARIZ/TRIZ above) Edward De Bono's "Serious Creativity" and "Lateral Thinking for Management" (yes terrible title) are full of thinking tools that can be practiced systematically. Most of his books are repetitive and have varying ratios of fluff to core…

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• vivegi · Aug 10, 2022 · Recommends

  Edward de Bono, Serious Creativity: How to Be Creative Under Pressure and Turn Ideas into Action (Paperback). March 5, 2015 https://www.amazon.com/Serious-Creativity-Creative-Pressure-... The book cited above is to help with 1. and 2.…

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• vivegi · Jan 27, 2022 · Recommends

  …open in the early stages of idea generation, you are clearly missing out. Edward de Bono, the person who coined the term Lateral Thinking has developed a lot of tools for creative thinking. His book, Serious Creativity changed my mindset and taught me that creativity, the kind we use every day as opposed to artistic creativity like painting/acting etc., is something that one can practice everyday and get better at.…

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• rayalez · Oct 2, 2015 · Recommends

  …PG's essay on coming up with startup ideas (http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html) and books on startups (Start Small Stay Small, Lean Startup, Rework, Zero to One, Abundance). - Read Edward DeBono's "Serious Creativity" - the most brilliant book about generating ideas I've ever encountered. Not about startups or apps in particular, but very interesting. -There are startup ideas threads on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836508…

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• rayalez · Sep 4, 2018 · Recommends

  …(Google) - On writing: Art of fiction/nonfiction by Ayn Rand, Story by Robert McKee, Save the Cat, Step by Step to Standup Comedy. - Other: The Selfish Gene, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Serious Creativity, Hackers & Painters, Hacking Growth, Angel (on angel investing, by Jason Calacanis). Also collections of essays by Paul Graham [1] and Scott Alexander [2]: [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/2no0sqybnxurpcd/Paul%20Graham%20-%...…

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• rayalez · Dec 23, 2018 · Recommends

  …(design tips), Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics, Master Algorithm - still reading these books, but they look REALLY good. - Other: The Selfish Gene, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Serious Creativity, Hackers & Painters, Hacking Growth, Angel (on angel investing, by Jason Calacanis). Also collections of essays by Paul Graham [1] and Scott Alexander [2]: [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/2no0sqybnxurpcd/Paul%20Graham%20-%...…

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• vivegi · Apr 22, 2023 · Mentions

  …that LLMs already subsume. So, it is just a matter of time before this gets refined and more useful that we don't have to worry about the hallucination coming in the way. [1]: https://www.amazon.com/Serious-Creativity-Thoughts-Reinventi... [2]: https://www.amazon.com/Six-Thinking-Hats-Edward-Bono/dp/0316... [3]: https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain

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• plinkplonk · Oct 30, 2007 · Mentions

  …direction. Thank you. I was asking "How did you get your startup ideas?" which is a little different. Some context. I was reading some books (Christiansen's "Innovator's Solution" and de Bono's "Serious Creativity" - I am a developer but I do read a business book once in a while! :-) ) which seem to advocate a deliberate, methodical approach to idea generation. I wondered how startup founders (especially…

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