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It is true however. Consider it was easy to bring an idea in this world, and the hard part was the initial first thought; writing a paper/article painstakingly
by eftychis 6y ago
It is true however.
Consider it was easy to bring an idea in this world, and the hard part was the initial first thought; writing a paper/article painstakingly rigorously would be unnecessary.
Writing a book would be a breeze and no author would ever go through more than a single draft.
The idea was born beforehand, was complete correct and perfect, so putting everything down with words is just a matter of transcribing.
An organization would not usually hire engineers with multiple degrees, but simply writers or an automated system that would listen and transcribe the idea.
An idea is truly born and exists through a lot of effort and iteration and redefinement and refinement.
P.S. There is a hard and subjective issue of where the line is drawn between ideation and minor uninteresting and menial maintainance/get the money in the bank work.
We have to recall however that a parent brings their child to life and tags along through all the effort and work. A child is the result of years of high to low level of unpleasant work. Drawing an arbitrary line of when you shall stop giving as a parent is naive and egotistical.
- Threeve303 6y agoThe best way I've heard this described is... Imagine the best painting you can come up with or have ever seen. Now go paint it.
- mbeex 6y agoWhat, if your ability for imagination is lacking? What, if this would be true in general? What do these implementers actually implement then? I also think, I have another definition of 'idea' than most people here. It is common especially in software development, to see the way as the destination and incremental change as development caused by some magical good-ending evolutionary process. This includes a quite unsubstantiated belief in getting the right ideas automagically along the way. You need both things. A good idea does not descent from heaven. Also, it has history in the person, creating it. This history is hard work in its own, inner fighting against the common and the environment. Jumping out of the box, all these pure implementers are unable to do. I am working for 25 years in the industry. I have written real code from the beginning. But I am also a mathematician and can say I had a few good ideas along the way. I am proud of it.
- jxramos 6y agoVery true. I think I recently deliberated on this point about ideas being cheap because they can so deceptively sit in the realm of the ideal where everything is unconstrained and unchallenged. Grounding ideas and putting them to the test is where you begin to discover all the boundaries and tradeoffs and messy details that must be sorted through. Real work has a way of illuminating all those sticky messy points that must line up first for an idea to have a legging in the real world. Our imaginations are free to come up with all sorts of inconsistent and conflicting ideas that just never come to the foreground because of the centration on the beautiful perfect idea.