The hard part of planning is often choosing the places to visit. For this, I’ve developed my own rating system to guide me. It is a scale from 1-10, with 10 being a world-class must-see-before-you-exit-this-Earth type of place, while a 1 represents that neighborhood pizza shop with mediocre food that the locals love to frequent.
Randomly Generating Ideas for Story Elements
Ideation works like an infinite snowflake fractal, with each new idea spawning the potential for exponentially more possibilities. Billions of creative people with quintillions of ideas… and still continuing to generate more and more ideas. As you can see, it takes old ideas to create new ideas.
Experiments with Seasoned Coffee
Store-bought flavored coffee is almost always flavored with natural or artificial flavors. Even when flavored with “natural” flavors, the flavorings are still highly processed and often taste “fake.” But what if we truly flavored our coffees naturally?
No More Top 10 Lists
A 2013 Buzzfeed study found that lists of 25, 15, 24, and 33 perform better than the common “Top 10” lists. Tailoring list length to time periods like 7, 12, 30, or 52 can inspire reader action. Lists that help plan days, weeks, or months provide more value to readers. Moving away from generic “Top 10s” and towards actionable lists of varying lengths can lead to increased engagement.
The Ultimate Life Bucket List
There are certain milestones that are almost mandatory for everyone, in order to have lived a well-rounded and fulfilling life. Here is a list of 70 bucket list items, one for each age from age 10 through age 79. While you don’t have to do any of these things, and there is no specific order or time limit for doing any of it, if you choose to skip one you may be missing out on a life-defining experience.
History Through Movies
In a way, you can think of movies as books in video format. Instead of reading stories, you’re watching them. I’d always thought it would be neat to see a timeline of the settings of historical movies. A quick search online turned up a few of good ones.