Book Ideas II

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13|Stereotypes - what if all stereotypes were true
                      they're "hackable" categorization that anyone can play
                      professional stereotypers are most influential (they know rituals)

14|Waiting - what if our internal dialog while we're waiting matters
                    what if we can intentionally define who we are
                       by changing/controlling what we think about
                       while we're in between tasks
                    overnight a NASA engineer could be a homeless person
                    maybe the purpose of education is to steer people away from this
                    and those who know the truth are quietly removed or repurposed

15|EnergyX - scientists accidentally create a new energy form
                    2 slacker scientists working together on a project at home
                    called "Shadow Energy" - allows you to store energy on the edges
                    transferable between any two shadows with the right markers
                    each slacker wastes it; their ambient waste is tracked
                    .... this idea is falling apart
                    ... which leads too

16|Idea Entropy - how to identify the quality of an idea
                    bound: intrinsic vs extrinsic
                    form: ideas that work for stories vs movies, etc

17|Meta -     writing about writing about what interests you
                    few of us have genuinely original thoughts
                        (which is good - if it was, how would you share it?)
                    but distinct and new rearrangement of known ideas has merit
                    what if new thoughts only occur when:
                        all existing ideas are document
                        all meaningful combinations of existing ideas have been evaluated

18|Wolves - the known (which wolf you feed) has been established
                 - expand to include other influences
                 - successful marketing is when you allow someone else which to feed
                 - morality plays are designed to choose the "right wolf" by habit
                 - which leads to - is non-volitional wolf-choice wrong

19|Becoming great - merge statistics
                 - 10,000 hours makes one an baseline expert
                 - you can choose what you think about
                 - thinking -> planning -> doing -> habits
                 - is being great a good thing
                 - gumption suckers

20|wordplay
                 - 20 500 word short stories
                 - the first comes from  oneword.com
                 - each successive should start (and be roughly about the last word

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