3 ms·

I love my idea debt. Not only are they a connection to my younger self, but old ideas are a rich ore to be mined for new ideas. Some of my best current ideas ar

I love my idea debt. Not only are they a connection to my younger self, but old ideas are a rich ore to be mined for new ideas. Some of my best current ideas are old ideas that have been tweaked by experience or external change so they are now relevant. Keep working on your ideas, but make sure you are actually turning some of them into reality.

rorykoehler 11y ago
I find it amazing how many of the ideas from my vault exist in some form or other in the real world now.
- hueving 11y ago
  This happens to many people. You encounter a problem or inefficiency and think up of some software or hardware that would make it better.
- augustl 11y ago
  I love the phrase "if you're the only one with an idea, it's probably a bad idea" :)
  - marcosdumay 11y ago
    There's something to be said about "idea space". most ideas hold little variance, and other people will have them. But some ideas can hold so much variance that no, nobody else in the world will even think about it.
  - danieltillett 11y ago
    This could be shortened to "if you have an idea then it is probably a bad idea" since most ideas are bad.
    - rorykoehler 11y ago
      People seemed to take it as if I was bragging about how many good ideas I have had (parent comment 2 levels up). In reality what I find amazing is that most of my ideas were terrible, solutions looking for a problem, and I'm glad I didn't pursue them.
MasterScrat 11y ago
> Some of my best current ideas are old ideas that have been tweaked by experience or external change so they are now relevant. I can't find the reference right now but it reminds me from a scheme from Feynman. He would keep a few ideas he's very familiar with in mind. Then every time he would be exposed to a new concept, he would consider each of his "core" ideas in light of this new concept.
- stuartaxelowen 11y ago
  Yes! He was building a single model to describe reality.

rorykoehler 11y ago

I find it amazing how many of the ideas from my vault exist in some form or other in the real world now.

hueving 11y ago
This happens to many people. You encounter a problem or inefficiency and think up of some software or hardware that would make it better.
augustl 11y ago
I love the phrase "if you're the only one with an idea, it's probably a bad idea" :)
- marcosdumay 11y ago
  There's something to be said about "idea space". most ideas hold little variance, and other people will have them. But some ideas can hold so much variance that no, nobody else in the world will even think about it.
- danieltillett 11y ago
  This could be shortened to "if you have an idea then it is probably a bad idea" since most ideas are bad.
  - rorykoehler 11y ago
    People seemed to take it as if I was bragging about how many good ideas I have had (parent comment 2 levels up). In reality what I find amazing is that most of my ideas were terrible, solutions looking for a problem, and I'm glad I didn't pursue them.

MasterScrat 11y ago

> Some of my best current ideas are old ideas that have been tweaked by experience or external change so they are now relevant. I can't find the reference right now but it reminds me from a scheme from Feynman. He would keep a few ideas he's very familiar with in mind. Then every time he would be exposed to a new concept, he would consider each of his "core" ideas in light of this new concept.

stuartaxelowen 11y ago
Yes! He was building a single model to describe reality.