1. Your brain on
digital
How to work with ideas
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Inspiration conference
October 2013

2. Where
do you get your
ideas from?

3. Everyone has lots
of ideas…
Authors are just
more disciplined
about doing
something with
them.
Iain M Banks
image (cc) Chris Bolland

4. Dangerous and
useful - our
metaphors for
thinking…

5. image (cc) Google
Machine
minds.

6. image (cc) Google
“Hard wired”

7. image (cc) Google
“Download”

8. image (cc) Google
Brain
hacks.

9. Better to think
about how
machines and
minds are
different…

10. …and how they
might work
together.

11. image (cc) AceKindred
Centaur
thinking.

12. Sports cars for the
brain.

13. Bicycles for the
mind.

14. Some people are
more serious
cyclists than others.

15. Incremental
advantages.
image (cc) Justicebuk

16. If you’re serious
about working
with ideas
the process is
the purpose…

17. Prototype
your day.

18. Being open
and closed.

19. Work / Flow

20. Workshops
refine and inspire

22. MOBILE
Mastery
Playful
MIndful
PurPoseful

23. Attention
is expensive

24. Thinking is
sequential.

25. Metacognition:
Thinking about
thinking.

26. Led to the
Design Your Day
book for Nokia’s
Smarter
Everyday
programme…

27. Chunking
your time.

28. “Multi-tasking is
procrastination in
disguise.”
Caroline Webb
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29. 25 minutes
90 minutes

30. Knowing when
to switch off.
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31. Right tools
for the job.

32. …and how they
might work
together.

33. …and how they
might work
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together.

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36. If you’re serious
about working
with ideas
the process is
the purpose…

37. Thanks.
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Further Reading and notes at:
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