Matthew Homann

In this week's edition: thinking bigger, higher ceilings, questing, consensus, dramadoodles, pretzels, penguins, and more.

In this week's edition: five year runs, AI teaching, asynch meeting, avoiding risk, obsoletism, scarce creativity, weird writing, Everest drones, Gotye, and more.

In this week's edition: dirty words, meeting hacks, problem frameworks, murderboards, misconceptions, heirloom tomatoes, Spielberg faces, independent bookstores, and more.

In this week's edition, a Filament pre-brainstorming tool, asking better, playing more, writing by hand, Likert scales, papercuts, Foolish Fests, photobooths, immortal hamburgers, birds singing, and more.

In this week's edition, you'll find hand grenades, compliments, team-wide vacations, structured procrastination, Easy-Bake Ovens, Buckminster Fuller, Alfred Hitchcock, and more.

In this week's edition: a cool conference session format, believing luck, the toll of meetings, expert advice, long conversations, imagination, creativity, wine prices, movie eggs, and more.

This week, I'll share a great daily process we use at Filament, along with interesting ideas about work, fun discoveries, and the most provocative quotes I've stumbled upon since our last time together.

Welcome to a double-issue of Idea Surplus Disorder. You're getting twice the cool stuff this week because I'm taking a break next week to hang out in Denver with the Avett Brothers and the grandkids. Speaking of travels, if there are any ISD readers in Raleigh-Durham

In this week's edition, a nonprofit SuperCollider in July, some Filamental wisdom, manifestos, blank sheets, thinking in sets, imitators, doodles, eggcorns, Excel Olympians, and more.

In this week's edition: a wonderful selling question, how to think about your organization's "work to do the work," a gentle way to keep devil's advocates from poisoning new work, and a bunch more cool stuff I found last week.