Your weekly dose of innovation, ideation, and inspiration from Matt Homann.
This week: a catechism for robots that reads more like advice for humans. Plus, how signposting makes your writing clearer, what happens when AI bypasses the thinking education was designed to build, and why five minutes of doing nothing might be the most productive part of your day.
This week in Idea Surplus Disorder: why you need more distance from strangers' minds, the difference between wisdom and synthesis, what "yet" can do for you, and why familiarity isn't the same as understanding.
This week in Idea Surplus Disorder: what AI still can't do, why more proof might earn less trust, how technology quietly erodes our thinking, and why three hours of real focus might be your daily limit.
This week in Idea Surplus Disorder: What ATMs and iPhones teach us about disruption, why simplicity loses to complexity, and a single question to see your own work more clearly.
This week in Idea Surplus Disorder: Why most meetings fail, how to make better gut decisions, and a hard-won lesson about loving work that doesn't love you back.
Most meetings fail because nobody's clear on what kind of conversation they're having. Filament's Dream, Debate, Decide, Do framework gives leadership teams a simple way to fix that before the meeting ever starts.
This week: a reframe that gave a roomful of cautious leaders permission to take risks, a simple question from Kevin Kelly that might change how you start your mornings, and a handful of tools for thinking more clearly about the things you're most certain about.
I'm happy for us to pay tuition to learn a lesson, but I'll be damned if I'm willing for us to pay to take the same class twice." One CEO's reframe changed how her entire leadership team thought about risk.
This week in Idea Surplus Disorder: a simple question to clarify expectations, sobering data on how poorly we listen, why AI may intensify work instead of reduce it, and how “evidence-based” thinking can kill bold ideas.
"Would you rather have it at 75% tomorrow, or 95% next week?" This simple question surfaces mismatched expectations before anyone over-invests or gets frustrated.
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