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Defrag Your Brain With a Spark File

\ Do you have a lot of ideas but no clue how to organize them? Or maybe ideas come to you and by the time you have a chance to record them, you've forgotten? Enter the Spark File. As Alex Hillman explains, this tool doesn't just capture half-baked ideas—it helps you turn small concepts into great things. Steven Johnson  is one of my favorite authors. I wish I could remember who introduced me to him so I could thank them. The first book of his I read was  The Invention of Air , and his most recent  Where Good Ideas Come From . Where Good Ideas Come From in 4 Minutes Recently, Steven started a series called " The Writers Room ". Truth be told, his last post is nearly a month old but has moved me so hard for the last month that I wanted to share. Enter the Spark File The  Spark File , Steven describes, is a process/tool that he uses to collect "half-baked ideas" and then revisit them. For eight years, he's maintained a single docu...