“To document,” Jurgenson writes, “is to be involved with our own experience instead of passively letting it float by.”

• Record ideas as they emerge
• Suspend all critical judgement until the end of the session. Idea production is ten times greater when imagination isn't restricted by judicial attitudes.
• Quantity is important. The more ideas, the greater the likelihood of success.
• Set a goal for how many ideas you want to come up with. Make the number so large that you will have to stretch to achieve your goal.
• Use and build on the ideas of others.

I like to think of knowing as proprioceptive: that how you move through the world makes the world and makes knowledge. Knowledge is not just a stable, objective thing out there. At the end of a scientifically rigorous exercise, knowledge is how we meet the world and how the world meets us in return.