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Real progress in any field or endeavor comes down to about 5% new ideas and creativity, 95% hard work putting those new ideas into practice or building somethin

Real progress in any field or endeavor comes down to about 5% new ideas and creativity, 95% hard work putting those new ideas into practice or building something functional out of them. That 5% is pretty critical however, as without it you're just continuing to redo what's already been done.

valgor 4y ago
This is very true. Ideas are pretty cheap to come by. Implementing, building, teasing them out into a practical scenario is hard.
- gizmo 4y ago
  I don't think it's easy at all. Try to come up with an original plot for a hollywood big budget time travel movie. Take the plot of Edge of Tomorrow. I could never come up with that. Ideas are easy when it's just "Grand theft auto in space", but actual originality? Extremely difficult.
  - sargstuff 4y ago
    guess why producers such as spielber and lucas draw from literature -- starwars from joseph campell 'warrior myth' & japanse 'magnificant 7'
  - corobo 4y ago
    On the other hand I ditch a handful of film/TV ideas each week. Many because they'd be crap of course, but the rest because there's no way in this lifetime I'll have the resources to bother thinking about them, never mind have the time to actually write them out. Gotta do regular people work till I die. So glad I was dragged out of the universal energy just to pay rent for 60 years haha. Fuck I wish I could afford to do something arty farty instead. Such is life. I passed my GCSE English literature (end of high school exam in UK) writing a time travel story, haha.
    - sargstuff 4y ago
      > ... arty farty... so, take appropriate precautionary measures and stop flushing crap down drain ?
      - corobo 4y ago
        There ain't no time for my dumb stories to get written down, the rent's due soon. Back to work.
  - sargstuff 4y ago
    novelty or origial application of combination of ideas? working fax machine was a 1800's idea.[1] [1] : https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-fax-machines-of-the-1800s/ https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-fax-machines-of-th...
- sargstuff 4y ago
  at least until gpt3 gets paired with 3d printer & amazon auto delivery to generate the crude diy precursor to star trek transporter
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y ago
  That expression, "ideas are easy, implementations are hard", is lacking nuance. No, new ideas are ridiculously hard: can you have the idea for an alphabet if you have never seen one before?, even the banal equals sign is a ridiculously hard idea, Euclid and al-Khwarizmi never had such an idea [1]. Ideas are hard, implementations are sometimes hard, idea collages or idea twistings are almost always easy, given a ripening context: sliced bread; sell things, but on the internet. [1] "Robert Recorde invented the equals sign (=) and also introduced the pre-existing plus sign (+) to English speakers in 1557." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Recorde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Recorde
borroka 4y ago
The problem with using percentages in these contexts is that they refer to something seemingly intuitive, but not quantifiable, and therefore ambiguous at best and useless at worst. What does 5%-95% refer to? Time? Effort/energy? We don't know. It is like saying that to lose weight 90% is about nutrition and 10% is about exercise. 90-10% of what, exactly? And what would change in my approach to diet/exercise if it was 80-20% or 70-30%? I think vague quantification does more damage along the way to achieving goals than we suspect. Maybe 10% more.

valgor 4y ago

This is very true. Ideas are pretty cheap to come by. Implementing, building, teasing them out into a practical scenario is hard.

gizmo 4y ago
I don't think it's easy at all. Try to come up with an original plot for a hollywood big budget time travel movie. Take the plot of Edge of Tomorrow. I could never come up with that. Ideas are easy when it's just "Grand theft auto in space", but actual originality? Extremely difficult.
- sargstuff 4y ago
  guess why producers such as spielber and lucas draw from literature -- starwars from joseph campell 'warrior myth' & japanse 'magnificant 7'
- corobo 4y ago
  On the other hand I ditch a handful of film/TV ideas each week. Many because they'd be crap of course, but the rest because there's no way in this lifetime I'll have the resources to bother thinking about them, never mind have the time to actually write them out. Gotta do regular people work till I die. So glad I was dragged out of the universal energy just to pay rent for 60 years haha. Fuck I wish I could afford to do something arty farty instead. Such is life. I passed my GCSE English literature (end of high school exam in UK) writing a time travel story, haha.
  - sargstuff 4y ago
    > ... arty farty... so, take appropriate precautionary measures and stop flushing crap down drain ?
    - corobo 4y ago
      There ain't no time for my dumb stories to get written down, the rent's due soon. Back to work.
- sargstuff 4y ago
  novelty or origial application of combination of ideas? working fax machine was a 1800's idea.[1] [1] : https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-fax-machines-of-the-1800s/ https://www.damninteresting.com/curio/the-fax-machines-of-th...
sargstuff 4y ago
at least until gpt3 gets paired with 3d printer & amazon auto delivery to generate the crude diy precursor to star trek transporter
ly3xqhl8g9 4y ago
That expression, "ideas are easy, implementations are hard", is lacking nuance. No, new ideas are ridiculously hard: can you have the idea for an alphabet if you have never seen one before?, even the banal equals sign is a ridiculously hard idea, Euclid and al-Khwarizmi never had such an idea [1]. Ideas are hard, implementations are sometimes hard, idea collages or idea twistings are almost always easy, given a ripening context: sliced bread; sell things, but on the internet. [1] "Robert Recorde invented the equals sign (=) and also introduced the pre-existing plus sign (+) to English speakers in 1557." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Recorde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Recorde

borroka 4y ago

The problem with using percentages in these contexts is that they refer to something seemingly intuitive, but not quantifiable, and therefore ambiguous at best and useless at worst. What does 5%-95% refer to? Time? Effort/energy? We don't know. It is like saying that to lose weight 90% is about nutrition and 10% is about exercise. 90-10% of what, exactly? And what would change in my approach to diet/exercise if it was 80-20% or 70-30%? I think vague quantification does more damage along the way to achieving goals than we suspect. Maybe 10% more.