Guide to Developing Ideas
An idea should follow under the given 3 content buckets in Content Buckets. Anything beyond is a special case and should be developed only if there is already a strong urge in you to develop.
- General Audience Topic - Systems Thinking and Problem Solving
- Niche Bucket Topic - Coding in AEC, Computational Design - Thoughts and Ideas
- Industry Related Topic - Thought Leadership on AEC Tech
The “For Who So That” Framework
For Who :
Take an idea and write it for targeted users.. Write the same topic for different ideas
3 different “For Who” audiences you can tailor your content towards
- People with 0 Knowledge in AEC Tech
- People who are just starting out
- People who are seasoned and highly skilled
- The person I was in the last 2 years
So that:
It is the benefit. Change the outcome of the essay for any on of the audience
The Endless Idea Generator
Get super specific Dial down the generality of the idea and keep getting specific
Step 1: The 4A Framework
- Actionable Ideas - Here's how
- Tips: X ways to do Y things better
- Framworks: X of the most useful framworks I've found for doing y
- Advice: Most people suck at X. Here's how to do it well
- Tools: X tools to do Y thing more effectively
- How to: Step-by-step guide for doing X
- Curataion: The X best books/podcasts/threads/examples for doing Y
- Analytical Ideas - Here are the numbers
- Trend: I se the world going X way
- Numbers: I studied the numbers beinf X Company
- Reasons: X reasons Y is true
- Aspirational Ideas - Yes, you can
- Mistakes & Lessons: I've done X - here's what I learned
- Mentorship: I learned from X person with a ton of credibility - here's what I learned
- Advice to Past Self: Things I wish I knew when I started X
- Growth: I did X,Y,Z - here's how I did it
- Anthropological Ideas - Here's why
- Contrarian: Everyone believes X, but really Y
- Observation: 1 thing I've noticed is X
- Razors: A breakdown of a simple decision - making heuristic
- Paradoxes: Things that seem 1 way but are really the other way
- Comparison: X vs Y.
Any idea that passes the content bucket check should fall into any of the 4A Frameworks. Pick the direction before writing the first work.
Step 2: Testing Different Proven Approaches
- How to
- Lessons Learned
- Mistakes
- Quotes
- Ways
- Tools
- Trends
- Stats
- Reasons
- Examples
- Ebarrassing Moments
The final form of the idea should be structured in any one of the approaches to writing. All the main points right from the hooks to the subheadings should follow the same style of the writing you began with.
Step 3: Establishing Credibility (3 Ways)
Telling that you are the expert
You went out and seeked the advice of an Expert and here's the curation
Tell you are'nt an expert yet, but here's from your personal experience
The Idea Bank
A Content Bucket for the General Audience
- Requirement Driven Development method to writing Lean Code and DefinitionsActionableWaysPersonal
- Systems Thinkers are lifelong learnersAspirationalHowToCurated
- How to deal with Negative Feedback while Problem SolvingAnalyticalHowToPersonal
A Content Bucket for the Niche Audience
- Why should you look out to preserving the topology of an element in your modelsActionableReasonsCurated
- Data Tree Matching Illustrated - A conversation about the List Matching Behaviour in GrasshopperActionableHowToExpert
- Negative Feedback in Grasshopper can make your or break youAnthropologicalReasonsExpert
- Teaching Oneself anything or being a self-taught is the best form of self directed educationActionableHowToExpert
- 3 of the most COMMON REASONS why Computational Designers choose Grasshopper over Dynamo - Atomic
- Some of the best resources, platforms, apps and guides on Computational Design
- A secret of our industry that not everyone knows that feels like insider information
- What is something that I have learnt in the last 2 years that I wish I knew earlier
- Not everything needs to be Automated
- You’ve headed out to learn Grasshopper without learning Rhino? Maybe you are being misguided!
- Struggling with Computational Design - Fix Your Approach with these FIVE Steps - Atomic
- I have been learning grasshopper since the past 7 years, but the majority of my learning happened in the last 2 year. Here’s what changed
- One skill that has made me a better computational designer is to be an effective googler. Here are X ways to be better at asking questions that get you the result you want
- You may probably not have the time to learn Rhino right now, but just want to jump to Grasshopper right away, here’s how I think you may slowly develop ideas about Rhino
- I have a lot of times took to retake a foundational course in Computational Design. Revisiting them gave me ideas and ways to improve my own way of code design
- The 3 Archetypes of Computational Designers - Finding your WAY OF CODE
- Voronoi Overdose Warning - A fun way to get the mundane noticeable
- Best Way to Break into AEC Tech
- Different versions of Point Representations in Rhino
- Speak while you Script
- Top 5 Programming Concepts you MUST that aids your understanding of workflows in Grasshopper
- Automating the Boring Stuff
- Debugging in Grasshopper 5 common mistakes Everyone makes that doesn’t look like a mistake
- It took me a day to clean up this mess. - 3 Golden Rules to Make sure your script legible and break proof
- Having practice Projects to work on for coding - Case of your Domain
- Talking to your code - Coding is all about speaking dialect
- Beginning with Revit API - Confusion with how parenthesis works how dots work and how methods work!
- . This how pyRevit managed to create a workaround with Python
A Content Bucket for the Industry Audience
- The Relevance of the AI Tech in the AEC Industry -AnalyticalStatsCurated
- The reason why AEC Tech progress is so slow as compared to other IT SectorsAnthropologicalStatsCurated
- Why do Developers hate spaces while naming their Files: A lovestory of different casings: Hint! You may love Pascal Casing!
- Testing the Edges - Making sure your code works in every scenario
- Programming gives you Options