Re:The Rise of the New Groupthink (2012)
by nate on Monday April 15, 2013 @10:52AM
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I remember working for Accenture and never having a good place to think.
I was in a R&D group for the company and I was tasked with leading a small team to prototype some innovative ways to collaborate. We were coming up very short.
I went into the bathroom and locked myself in a stall for 45 minutes, because that's the only place I could find with zero people for awhile.
And in that solitude some ideas finally started to percolate. I finally had that lightbulb moment. I ended up getting a patent on the very thing I came up with that day in the bathroom stall. http://www.google.com/patents/US20040183829 (Of course a lot of BS in this patent, but it was pretty novel at the time.)
I don't think it's any surprise why we get so many great ideas in the shower. It's because we're finally alone.
I was in a R&D group for the company and I was tasked with leading a small team to prototype some innovative ways to collaborate. We were coming up very short.
I went into the bathroom and locked myself in a stall for 45 minutes, because that's the only place I could find with zero people for awhile.
And in that solitude some ideas finally started to percolate. I finally had that lightbulb moment. I ended up getting a patent on the very thing I came up with that day in the bathroom stall. http://www.google.com/patents/US20040183829 (Of course a lot of BS in this patent, but it was pretty novel at the time.)
I don't think it's any surprise why we get so many great ideas in the shower. It's because we're finally alone.