The concept of an Idea Lab is to gather together all of the tools for coming up with ideas and brainstorming into one web workspace. I would also create my own tools by writing web apps to randomly generate ideas or aid in the brainstorming process.
Interesting Notes on the Taiwanese Language
Although I’ve lived in the US all my life and don’t look very Asian, I can speak the Taiwanese dialect of Chinese conversationally with very little accent. Here are some interesting things I’ve picked up about the Taiwanese language.
Family Cookbook: Ramen Stir-fry
Ramen stir-fry is my teenage daughter’s favorite family dish. It’s basically ramen noodles without the soup, served up with lots of chicken and vegetables as a comfort food dinner.
Rapid Releasing 1,000 Mini Books
Writing and selling a book is unlikely to be profitable, but what if you took it to the extreme and wrote 1,000 books? I think an author can do quite well, even today, by writing and releasing quickly over a long period of time.
Travel Destination Ratings
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.