Burger of Ideas

Make a burger.

No, you don't need to go to your kitchen for that. Let's talk about burger of ideas today.

This pleasant evening, I read a newsletter issue about the importance of linking ideas in order to achieve good quality output be it in the form of writings, art, or the next big thing.

It's such an interesting thing to think about. All of our opinions and perspectives are unique in a way because only we've gotten the access to experiences that led to those perspectives.

I want to continue thinking about the leverage linking or stacking of idea provides. Whenever thinking about a single idea or an event, there's an isolation of it and we are mentally confined in a way that we only think about that particular idea. Now, if connect different and even difficult-to-comprehend ideas, we may come up with something unique - makes sense, right?

The question is that how can we incorporate systems of stack based thinking in our lives. How much of it can be done to gain an unmeasureable leverage over the same old bland ideas everyone's thinking about?

A simple exercise:

1. Think of a fairly popular topic (e.g. living alone).

2. Accumulate information on that topic.

3. Link the ideas.

Make a burger of ideas stacking one layer on another once you're done accumulating.

How can we link information?

Document different perspectives from variety of people. Talk with IIT/JEE aspirants who've lived alone. Talk to economists who've lived alone. Talk to people who do not like living alone. Talk to an orphan living alone.

After accumulation from a wide range of sources, linking the information would give you a hell of a unique perspective with substance.

It's also a good way of approaching academic research work, isn't it?

You don't always have access to different people but to the ones on their pursuit of truth, this is a lovely challenge. You'll figure out ways of accumulating information and making a burger out of the ideas if you are one.

What will happen after stacking of ideas?

If you take an isolated idea, it goes something like this...

"ABC happens because this and that"

If you take an example of linked ideas, it goes...

"ABC happens because of this, I think. But X type of people think that's not possible because of Y. Oh, I remember a blog I read last year which had an idea XYZ. Is XYZ related with ABC? Z type of people do agree to that happening."

You see there's increased verifiability as there's much more to learn from. You create further links and branches of information to explore in the future and more importantly, this is deep knowledge about a topic.

Can we say that linking is a way of acquiring deep knowledge about a topic?