What Idea???
Idea is. . .
I - Idea
d - delete
e - edit
a - add
And what is it supposed to mean?
It's an acronym I use for my work.
Now, Arv. . .pleazzzzz, no more acronyms???
Incidentally, it makes good sense and is beautiful.
You can use it for many things. . .design, development, problem-solving etc.
This is a few things that I associate with it.
The 'I' is capitalized, which means it's got a special status from the other three. Ofcourse, being the first term, it also gets to be attended to first.
Suppose you have got an Idea. Great. Now, in the Idea, there can be some undesirable elements - these you element by 'd' i.e. delete. Next, there can be certain things that you would like to modify i.e. edit. Finally, you can 'add' and this completes one iteration.
The special status for 'I' in 'Idea' is in the sense that you can delete or edit or add things but the Idea remains the same - kind of like the body can change but the soul remains the same. Idea is complete in itself - it's a recursive acronym, like PHP.
The order of the term is quite important. Call it Serendipity that it came like that. Everything starts with an Idea. Now, it's better to first delete the unwanted than add the useful items if you consider Idea as a container that's to be filled. It's easier to knock off the unwanted i.e. delete than examine something i.e. edit. It's also easier to edit what is present already than go fetch something to add.
'I' comes from intuition while 'd-e-a' comes from rationality. They are the Yin-Yang and right-brain -- left-brain. And the cyclic order of I-d-e-a is the 'Tao'.
One can also associate this with Hindu Trinity. 'I' is like 'Para-Brahman' and 'd-e-a' are like 'Shiva-Vishnu-Brahma'.
For design, one can take the I as a template or prototype from which one deletes, edits and adds items. For agile programming, one can say the 'I' as creating the first core product. For writing, 'I' can ofcourse be an idea from which one can later delete 'ego', edit for entertainment and add (action, description and dialogue - ADD)
4 more nights to go before I will be drugless.
Where does all this leave me? I'm wondering if I should do website design and development using this or write the novel professionally. Ican presently work nicely, with minor hiccups, for 1 session of 45 mins to 1 hour. I don't know how balanced my mind will be if I work for 6 hours like this, with psychotic thoughts of hackers. I guess I'm grossly over-estimating my problems. Anyway, I will be working for 1 session like this. Writing novel isn't easy either and it's difficult to explain to my mom that I'm working when I keep looking out through the window (quote used from elsewhere).
It will be one of the two. Let's see.
Idea is. . .
I - Idea
d - delete
e - edit
a - add
And what is it supposed to mean?
It's an acronym I use for my work.
Now, Arv. . .pleazzzzz, no more acronyms???
Incidentally, it makes good sense and is beautiful.
You can use it for many things. . .design, development, problem-solving etc.
This is a few things that I associate with it.
The 'I' is capitalized, which means it's got a special status from the other three. Ofcourse, being the first term, it also gets to be attended to first.
Suppose you have got an Idea. Great. Now, in the Idea, there can be some undesirable elements - these you element by 'd' i.e. delete. Next, there can be certain things that you would like to modify i.e. edit. Finally, you can 'add' and this completes one iteration.
The special status for 'I' in 'Idea' is in the sense that you can delete or edit or add things but the Idea remains the same - kind of like the body can change but the soul remains the same. Idea is complete in itself - it's a recursive acronym, like PHP.
The order of the term is quite important. Call it Serendipity that it came like that. Everything starts with an Idea. Now, it's better to first delete the unwanted than add the useful items if you consider Idea as a container that's to be filled. It's easier to knock off the unwanted i.e. delete than examine something i.e. edit. It's also easier to edit what is present already than go fetch something to add.
'I' comes from intuition while 'd-e-a' comes from rationality. They are the Yin-Yang and right-brain -- left-brain. And the cyclic order of I-d-e-a is the 'Tao'.
One can also associate this with Hindu Trinity. 'I' is like 'Para-Brahman' and 'd-e-a' are like 'Shiva-Vishnu-Brahma'.
For design, one can take the I as a template or prototype from which one deletes, edits and adds items. For agile programming, one can say the 'I' as creating the first core product. For writing, 'I' can ofcourse be an idea from which one can later delete 'ego', edit for entertainment and add (action, description and dialogue - ADD)
4 more nights to go before I will be drugless.
Where does all this leave me? I'm wondering if I should do website design and development using this or write the novel professionally. Ican presently work nicely, with minor hiccups, for 1 session of 45 mins to 1 hour. I don't know how balanced my mind will be if I work for 6 hours like this, with psychotic thoughts of hackers. I guess I'm grossly over-estimating my problems. Anyway, I will be working for 1 session like this. Writing novel isn't easy either and it's difficult to explain to my mom that I'm working when I keep looking out through the window (quote used from elsewhere).
It will be one of the two. Let's see.
