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Are Your Best Ideas Dying on Post-its?

Are Your Best Ideas Dying on Post-its?

Here’s how I stopped throwing away good ideas, and what it taught me about momentum.

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Cameron Mackworth
Aug 08, 2025
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A wall of neglected Post-It ideas that will never reach their potential.
Photo by Declan Sun on Unsplash

I didn’t think I had a creativity problem.

Until I finally picked up my random Post-Its. All 71 of them.

Each of them representing a wild, wonderful, spontaneous moment - a happy collision of unsuspecting thoughts, experiences and memories floating in the mental ether.

A moment when meaning was created in a cloudburst of OMG…

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