7 Random But Interesting Ideas I Found Last Week
02 May 2026 #miscRecently, I’ve started to list interesting ideas I found over the week—to practice my 10-idea list habit. Here are 7 from the last week.
#1. The Matthew effect. Inspired by a verse from the gospel of Matthew, recognition goes to already-recognized people. Visit social media and you’ll see it.
#2. The one sentencing to death wields the sword. Or something like that. This comes from Game of Thrones. Decision makers should stay close to their decisions.
#3. Don’t treat reading as background noise. Know whether you’re reading for pleasure and insight. When reading for insight, make it active. Otherwise, you won’t remember anything.
#4. Solve the problem with what’s in your room. Or in your head or in your notes.
#5. Three interesting questions from Tim Ferriss’s Tools of Titans:
- What if you only solve a problem by removing something?
- What if you only had two hours to create[Why I’m Writing Some of My Posts By Hand (Plus An Update On My Book Experiment)](/2026/02/07/Handwriting/)?
- What’s the least crowded place to go?
#6. When writing anything emotional, write by hand. For everything else, type.
#7. Start writing by the end. What’s the one thing you want readers to take away?
Writing a 10-idea list changed my life. Try it! It could change yours too.