I like to work. I love to solve problems. I don't enjoy spending time in bars or watching television. Where can I find people like me? [more inside]
posted by mockdeep on Sep 29, 2009 - 21 answers

Computer-aided design using Christopher Alexander's Notes on the Synthesis of Form? [more inside]
posted by zeek321 on Jul 11, 2009 - 4 answers

Help me develop topics for a high school course on problem solving. [more inside]
posted by etc. on May 12, 2009 - 16 answers

What questions do you use to stimulate your thought processes when you have a problem? [more inside]
posted by Solomon on Jan 21, 2009 - 17 answers

What to do while noodling? [more inside]
posted by TryTheTilapia on Jun 10, 2008 - 32 answers

I'm looking for dialog-heavy scenes (in books, movies, TV shows, etc) where a group of people solve a problem or make a plan in the course of one long conversation. [more inside]
posted by nebulawindphone on Apr 20, 2008 - 33 answers

I need some good books or other learning material about how to effectively lead people, and more importantly, solve disputes. Read anything that would help me? [more inside]
posted by DMan on Sep 19, 2007 - 7 answers

I need an audio delivery system. Let's say that I have one-hundred locations across the country where I want to play a 4-minute loop of audio over an in-house PA system, and change the content of that 4-minutes on a weekly basis. I don't know if it's something that I should try to build myself or if there's something commercially available that will accomplish the task. [more inside]
posted by TurkishGolds on Apr 11, 2007 - 6 answers

I have a problem that asks what is the smallest time interval that you can accurately measure with a shoelace that burns at a non-constant rate, matches and a pair of scissors. I think this is just one of a whole family of problems like this. Where can I find other problems like this? Help me find the solution to this problem. [more inside]
posted by noether on Oct 19, 2005 - 43 answers

Is there a word or concise phrase in any language that means "to walk away from a problem, and return to it later with the solution immediately obvious"? Also, if there's a word or phrase (again, in any tongue) that means "the unquestionably perfect solution, so right that there can be no better answer," I'd like to know that as well.
posted by melissa may on Feb 19, 2005 - 31 answers