- Capture all of your ideas, such as in a notebook, to get more of them.
- Strive for good design; it really works better.
- The more senses you engage in a task with, the more involved and focused your brain will be. Fiddling, music, walking, etc.
- Step away from the keyboard from time to time to solve hard problems.
- Change your viewpoint to solve the problem: look at it in reverse or exaggerate it.
- Watch for outliers: rarely doesn’t mean never.
- Be comfortable with uncertainty.
- Trust ink over memory; every mental read is a write.
