After reading my post The Covid Cost to Creativity, Never Stop Marketing’s CEO, Donny Dvorin sent me a note.

“James Altucher talks a lot about working your “idea muscle.”  Everyday you make a list of 10 ideas about anything. Carlos [NSM’s head of marketing] and I use to do this everyday when we started our Choose Yourself book club.

So, with a debt of gratitude to my NSM colleagues, and an effort to jumpstart my creative muscles, here we go….

• put GPS locators in gravestones. It will be a heck of a lot easier for descendants to find people in cemeteries that way
• embed digital signs in gravestones. Let people beam messages to their visitors (or vice versa)
• have a digital readout on the side of a coffee mug so you know if your coffee is still hot or warm
• have an app that lets you report people who don’t keep their dogs on leashes in areas that require them. Public shaming.
• allow me to trade my airline miles freely with other people, no strings attached.
• have the option to buy bell peppers that are pre-cut
• offer up digital sponsorships for zoom virtual backgrounds so people can monetize their zoom time, kind of like the way ads change at sporting events
• have an app that subtracts 5/10/15 minutes of phone time for every 1 minute that a teenager stays in bed after the alarm goes off
• put an edible RFID tag in food that syncs to your phone to tell you, in real-time, how many calories you are consuming
• have a timer on the TV/device where you can set a “watch budget” by person or individual to minimize the amount of passive activities in line with your pre-determined wishes
• automatically sync “chore completion” with a streaming release of allowance via sablier.eth to minimize/reduce the need for parental nagging
• migrate an entire WordPress blog to a decentralized service for seamless transitioning to new platform

2 bonus ones, I suppose.

Have a creative day.