Boosting Innovation Velocity

So here's my problem: my innovation velocity varies too much. Way too much.

When it's up, it's way up – lots of fresh ideas arriving and connecting, leading to new projects, articles, even books. When it's down, it's pretty flat. If you were to draw a chart of my generation of good ideas over a given stretch of time, it would look like a map of Montana – large stretches of vast, windswept plains, leading to a few clusters of tall peaks where the majority of good ideas occur.

I'm interested in t...