3 ms·
"... Woz said that some of their best ideas (when building Apple) came after several days of not sleeping ..." Don't confuse working on a problem for a long ti
by bootload 18y ago
"... Woz said that some of their best ideas (when building Apple) came after several days of not sleeping ..."
Don't confuse working on a problem for a long time, understanding it very clearly with having the idea in your head and regurgitating a solution in one long stint. Woz emphasized this in his 2005 Startup School talk. Understanding an idea so completely in your head you can simplify it no more.
- beaudeal 18y agoI'm not confusing anything, just restating what he said in his interview with Jessica. The actual quote is "When you get very, very tired -- and I had been up for four nights all night long; Steve and I got mononucleosis -- your head gets in this real creative state and it thinks of ideas that you'd normally just throw out."