How do you come up with ideas for content?

Capturing and developing ideas for videos, posts and writing (resonance calendar, ideas refinery).

Axis: capture ideas systematically as they come ... wait for inspiration

Answers by date: 6 records in 4 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. shift and revise mean the advice changed; tension — speakers disagree.

date	who	answer	source
2020-11-24 (said on 2020-11-20, implied)	Ali	The Academy's two-hour live session, with around 250 students on Zoom, teaches the idea generation machine for never running out of content ideas: eureka-moment strategies, the birdsong technique, the coal mining method.	A "Productive" Day in my Life (Lockdown) 00:02:55
2020-08-20	Ali	The sixth Building a Second Brain principle, start with abundance: you are never starting from scratch; to write about motivation, search your second brain in Evernote or Notion for the word and draw on the articles you have read and annotated over the years.	The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System 00:07:14
2020-08-20	Ali	shift: The third Building a Second Brain principle, idea recycling: ideas are not single use, as Ali used to think, and can be recycled and reused over time.	The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System 00:03:18
2020-08-20	Ali	The first Building a Second Brain principle, borrowed creativity: creativity is about remixing existing ideas from what you read, watch and listen to, adding your own spin and combining them in interesting ways.	The Second Brain - A Life-Changing Productivity System 00:01:35
2020-07-07	Ali	With a board of ideas, Ali and his team never start a video from scratch; like writers with a good note-taking process, they never need to start from a blank page, which is no fun at all.	My Creative Workflow with Notion 00:03:04
2019-10-19	Ali	Ali fully recommends a resonance calendar with an ideas refinery to anyone who creates any kind of content.	How I use Notion as a Resonance Calendar 00:10:33

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