> - They had a reserve of good ideas and used them up faster than they could generate new ones I think the quality and complexity of the ideas also matters, pe

> - They had a reserve of good ideas and used them up faster than they could generate new ones I think the quality and complexity of the ideas also matters, perhaps more even than quantity. Some of my favorite 'creators' who become better over time tend to focus on essentially the same thing over and over again (more than others, it seems). But their later works are richer and better and developments from earlier works.