Avid chat participant Ify Ofulue uses chats to brainstorm with guest speakers and says it is an immeasurable source of knowledge.

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It is much easier to strategize and brainstorm about solutions when you can freely talk about the problem.

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How useful is it to have a group of really smart people brainstorm for a day?

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Then it was off to conference rooms to discuss the problem, brainstorm ideas and develop a solution and presentation to show to Hackomotive judges.

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If you get a brainstorm at midnight, go ahead and write that note, but put it in your draft folder and then hit send at 9 a.m.

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At other sessions it's more touchy-feely: Workers and supervisors brainstorm and enact skits to find ways to improve productivity by, say, getting workers to load more boxes onto a truck.

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It was organized by Cal Tech physicist Sean Carroll and its goal was to brainstorm ways to promote the virtues of naturalism, something that caused Ferguson no small amount of alarm.

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