Category Archives: Idea
Let’s hear your idea about… FOOD 1
Photo by stevendepolo 06. FOOD Big topic today with lots of scope for inventiveness. I want to hear your idea about food. Whether it’s about solving world hunger or preventing food wastage, creating home gardening kits, halting the obesity epidemic or creating ways in which kids can get more nutritious lunches at schools, I want [...]
Let’s hear your idea about… COLLECTING 0
Photo by Rupert Brun 05. COLLECTING Today’s call for ideas is about accumulating things. Whether it’s an idea about how to shelve and display a DVD collection, thoughts about archiving or cataloguing, ways to start and keep a collection of interesting things, or perhaps you have new ideas about collectible products that will see you [...]
Let’s hear your idea about… TIME 1
Photo by Telstar Logistics 04. TIME Here’s an opportunity to get creative. You might have an idea for saving time, or for a time-management technique. You may want to think about keeping time, or doing something that involves altering the tempo in a piece of music. You might come up with a new type of [...]
Let’s hear your idea about… HOUSEWORK 1
Photo by bies 03. HOUSEWORK This time, let’s think about something completely mundane. Everyone has to do it, and I think there’s room for it to be a lot less onerous, more environmentally friendly, more fun and more fairly distributed. Whether you have an idea for a service that takes care of chores, delivers household [...]
Let’s hear your idea about… EDUCATION 10
Photo by Trondheim Byarkiv 02. EDUCATION Today’s challenge is to come up with ideas about the learning process. It might be something to do with how to learn things, ways in which testing could be improved, innovations in the classroom, ideas for topics that should be introduced, ways of getting smarter or tools for managing [...]
Let’s hear your idea about… RAIN 14
Photo by eirikso After this morning’s conversation about sharing ideas, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to do a series of blog posts asking for ideas on a theme. The purpose of the theme is to either remind you of a particular idea you might have already had, or to get you thinking [...]
What’s the big idea? 1
I received a nice email this morning from Kevin Boyle, one of the guys behind Ideas Improv (watch the video above). He writes: Hey Andrew — I don’t know how I happened upon your 30 ideas in 30 days but it gave me …an idea. I wanted to see if there were more Andrew Dubbers [...]
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Your logic cannot help you here 3
I ended up in something of a debate about ad-blockers on the internet yesterday. Radio “futurologist” (inverted commas because that term is so problematic for me) James Cridland wrote a blog post entitled Piracy and Ad-Blockers Are Both Theft. To which my simple, immediate and gut-response was simply “you’re wrong”. James tweeted a link to [...]
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20 daily things 0
So far in 2012 my mantra has been “little, and often”. I decided not to make any New Year’s resolutions, but instead to make changes to the way in which I might do the things I already do. Perhaps not surprisingly, this has had a far more radical impact upon the amount I’ve been able [...]
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