- Capture ideas fast
- Share ideas first
- Organic development later
(An Etherchapel inspired musing on the stewardship of big ideas that don't belong exclusively to you, and effective, organic, and courteous communication)
The ideas here are all starting out broad, deep, and vague. The seed of this idea is to get creative juices going at a very fundamental level and to communicate as much as possible just as fast as is reaonable, with the reader able to pull out the idea's essence from the front page headline and still have gotten enough to make the idea their own. So start the writing with:
- Capture ideas fast
- Share ideas first
- organic development
- seed stage (time to plant/read = 30 seconds)
- grow to (2 min)paragraphs,
- (15-90 min) outlined article,
- rich page,
- blog
- website
Capture fast, Share first
By keeping it simple, punchy, and broadly defined at first, an idea is able to be transcribed into a different venue. That is, someone (like me in the future) reads something like "tersetext=crispconcept" and thinks not necessarily of idea listing, but can perhaps get to musing on the repeating paradox of simplicity and potency all the way from the infinite level of an utter simplicity in God as inseparable to his omnipotence, or maybe just on a mundane level for labeling their sock drawer/s.
Organic development
It would be nice of course if there were a certain divine build and crescendo to the repetitions, like a musical composition, such that each successive movement- headline, seedwords, sentence, paragraph, article, page, site not only unfolded logically into the next but perhaps even did so poetically... But this level of genius belongs properly to God and shouldn't become (as it tends to do to me) an obsessive pursuit.
The idea is also to do the, err, idea justice (assuming it's a good one) and get it out where others can chew on it or cook with it themselves, rather than clutching it as mine until I consider it ready to be released.
If the idea is good/big enough to merit more than two or three purely textual paragraphs it needs to go on into a linked-to article on a page of it's own. This will mean starting over conceptually and, at this scale, the use of outlines, diagrams, images, and nested argument/explanations.
In the interest of not wasting people's (and my own) time, there should be very little repetition, and the text should remain plain and punchy (with few parenthetical remarks to slow things down{like this}).
The purpose here is to get creative juices going at a very fundamental level and to communicate as much as possible just as fast as is reaonable, with the reader able to pull out at almost any point and still have gotten enough to make the idea their own.
Crispy concepts..
always-leave-them-wanting-mo ..
fill in the bl nks..
don't use four-thousand words when four would do:
always-leave-them-wanting-mo ..
fill in the bl nks..
don't use four-thousand words when four would do:
You get the idea.