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Creative Remixing

TTool · Creative Remixing

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You're stuck on a problem that feels unique. Your industry's usual answers aren't working. Somewhere outside your sector, someone solved this years ago.

Creative Remixing is the practice of combining existing ideas from different domains to create something new. You deliberately seek analogies across industries and apply solutions from one context to another. As Kirby Ferguson's Everything is a Remix documents, most innovation is recombination rather than pure invention.

A three-step sequence numbered 01 to 03, labelled pick, translate, and steal, each with a short instruction, headed by the question "whose solution are you not stealing yet?"
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“I've been told to 'be more innovative' and I don't know what that means.”

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