Circling back a few months later, I have some observations from trying out this idea:
I found myself tossing ideas to friends and acquaintances more often, which tended to improve my relationships with them somewhat
I noticed that some of the ideas I was preparing to hand off to someone else had glimmers of concepts I could use for other things, which had obvious benefits
I didn’t notice any impact to my normal ideation/processing bandwidth as a result of the change in operating method
Sometimes ideas I handed off to someone else would circle back later and benefit one of my own projects, although I suspect the success rates for such second-order results will vary wildly
Overall, it seems to have been worth trying, and I’ll probably keep it going.
Circling back a few months later, I have some observations from trying out this idea:
I found myself tossing ideas to friends and acquaintances more often, which tended to improve my relationships with them somewhat
I noticed that some of the ideas I was preparing to hand off to someone else had glimmers of concepts I could use for other things, which had obvious benefits
I didn’t notice any impact to my normal ideation/processing bandwidth as a result of the change in operating method
Sometimes ideas I handed off to someone else would circle back later and benefit one of my own projects, although I suspect the success rates for such second-order results will vary wildly
Overall, it seems to have been worth trying, and I’ll probably keep it going.
Thank you for this update!