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The Ideation Headwater

How I Weaponized Gemini and Google Drive to Kill Context Switching

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Bill french
Jan 01, 2026
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In the sanitized world of software development, we like to pretend that “ideation” happens at a whiteboard, fueled by expensive espresso and the calm hum of a MacBook Pro. We treat ideas like scheduled deliverables—items to be logged in Jira or neatly bulleted in a Notion page during a synchronous Zoom call.

We are lying to ourselves.

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