Capturing butterflies...

[Artur Silva]

Paul and Doug:

Your suggestions are interesting and I suppose you are
trying to capture only "butterflying ideas".

But please don't capture the butterlflies themselves.
Admire them, talk with them, etc - but don't capture
them, please...

Artur

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--- EVERETT813 at aol.com wrote:
> Doug,
>
> Thanks for sharing that bit.   Great reminder of an
> old principle.
>
> An old friend at the CPSI (Creative Problem Solving
> Institute) used something
> similar to write his several books.   He had a large
> pegboard in his office
> that had big manila envelopes attached to hooks,
> like you might find in
> someone's woodworking or tool shop.   On the outside
> of the envelope was the
> subject/title and whenever he had an idea or
> inspiration, he'd write it down and stuff
> it into the appropriate envelope.   When it got "fat
> enough", he knew he had
> a book.   He'd take it down, organize the disparate
> notes, and write the book.
>
> A program I led inside a company for many years used
> business-card sized
> "Idea Traps" and passed them out to the foremen and
> hourly workers by the
> thousands.   It was part of an effort to improve
> productivity and reduce costs.
> Worked quite well.   Many projects saving literally
> millions of dollars in the
> aggregate grew out of those cards.
>
> Paul Everett
>
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