[pbh]

The brainstorming and initial reaction points are two points I actually forgot to make in the blog post. Thanks!

Regarding brainstorming, I've found that I tend to get locked into one line of thinking when brainstorming domains, and the workers don't do that (since they're all different people). As a result, even if the specific proposal by a worker isn't great, they're often on to an interesting line of domains that I can continue myself.

Regarding initial reaction, I found that the process of honing a description to get a good name was actually really similar to honing a pitch describing a company. When the workers didn't get the concept, they could not produce good names. Further, the best descriptions start to sound like what-problem-does-this-solve customer-based pitches for websites.