You can think of conversation as a kind of mental sex that produces ideas rather than physical offspring. To produce good ideas, though, it's best to follow a few rules of "memetic hygiene".
Concrete ideas to modify and expand this hack go here.
Freeform discussion of this hack goes here.
Links to relevant websites go here.
Errata go here.
This is a page for a hack from the book MindPerformanceHacks by Ron Hale-Evans.