Your weekly dose of innovation, ideation, and inspiration from Matt Homann.
In this issue, learn why naming the dynamics in the room can transform bad meetings, how trimming the sails can sometimes be better than a full reset, and why brainstorming questions instead of ideas might unlock your next breakthrough.
In this edition: a searchable quote archive, an AI-powered newsletter GPT, reimagined SuperCollider and New Skills for Work, tips for better meetings, strategy planning, decision-making, digital laughter, robot puppies, and more!
In this week's edition: the death of critical thinking, the problems with strategy consulting, culture decks, robot replacements, obstetricians, Chinese cuisines, American cartoons, rocket-engine fireplaces, and more.
This week, there's a mix of old and new for you to enjoy, including Friday's SuperCollider, a Bluesky invitation, the explore/exploit continuum, the two-day rule, more walls, fewer screens, Magic 8-balls, rubber band guns, and more.
In this edition: the tyranny of choice, AI coworkers, sympathy cards, narrative feedback, Bayesian decision-making, vintage video games, history-making recipes, Aztec death whistles, and more.
This week: envelope thinking, idea dumbness, grilled cheeses, mall shopping, metric-less success, playing shirori, post-it doodles, the importance of ThinkWeeks, some work-in-progress from Filament, and more.
In this week's edition: Startup SuperCollider, living beyond hope, critical ignoring, the scourge of screens, Chesterton's fence, ice cream music, book toilets, comic ads, the first Idea Surplus Disorder podcast, and more.
Welcome to Idea Surplus Disorder! This week: Thinksgiving, cards for feedback, managerial questions, writes vs. write-nots, complexity vs. chaos, overfunctioners, tautophrases, plaids, lunar photos, Rubik&
In this week's Idea Surplus Disorder: Grand Canyon focus, micro-meetings, vacation emails, accountability sinks, vintage strategy, participation trophies, SNL product logos, seventeenth-century death roulette, and more.
In this week's edition: innovation speed, the cost of low performers, delegation frameworks, communication misfires, rapid idea generation, poor decision making, and why learning from failure might not be as common as we think.
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