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The idea-mountain metaphor seems to lose the plasticity of ideas. From my understanding, more often than not, ideas change during execution. Mathematically spe
by andreyf 19y ago
The idea-mountain metaphor seems to lose the plasticity of ideas. From my understanding, more often than not, ideas change during execution.
Mathematically speaking, the space of ideas is continuous (in many dimensions).
- paul 19y agoYes, the metaphor is imperfect. Perhaps you can imagine that the top of the mountain is in the clouds, so although the initial idea is to "go that way", you don't really know exactly where you are going until you've arrive.
- andreyf 19y agoI'm not sure what the point is of drawing any of these metaphors - a market is important because you want to make something useful, and execution is important because you want to beat your competition. If you don't have a market, you lose in the start, if you don't have proper execution, you lose to competition. So do both. So ideas without execution are worthless. And good execution of a market-less idea is also worthless.