Brainstorming Session

Summary of Brainstorming Session

January 20, 2024

Introduction

Our team recently had an ideas brainstorming session where we talked about initial ideas. The raw document with our ideas can be found here, but this document will serve to provide a bit more understanding/segmentation of the ideas neatly.

Approach

Outside of the usual team bonding/warm-up activities (i.e., O'Brien did a great job of running 20 questions), we focused a lot on thinking about problems as opposed to solutions. One thing that we feel is a big trap is the notion of thinking about emerging technologies and trying to apply those to problems, rather than working backwards from what irritated us. Furthermore, we tried to be as diverse as possible during idea generation. As the document and this page will detail, naturally, a lot of the ideas do relate back to our shared experiences in ML and Systems. Nonetheless, we tried to think about all aspects of our life, from our interests in sports to daily events.