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"What pmarca is ignoring is that most people won't even try to come up with ideas by themselves." All you have to do is tell each other that you're going to me
by natrius 19y ago
"What pmarca is ignoring is that most people won't even try to come up with ideas by themselves."
All you have to do is tell each other that you're going to meet to discuss the ideas that you've thought up in three hours. The social disincentive of looking pretty lame if you show up with nothing is enough to get people to do it. He's not saying a group of one is better, but the combined individual efforts of a group are greater than when they all think about things together.
- staunch 19y agoIn my experience most people would show up with some basic ideas and then rely on the group interaction to draw out the rest. The test and the results are flawed because they don't match the real world at all. Of course you don't do just one or the other because the together/alone pattern repeats itself and there's an opportunity to present new ideas each time the group meets. I think pmarca's point was that group brainstorming isn't a valuable thing to do. That's not true from my experience. I am a huge fan of avoiding feel-good wishy-washy brainstorming though.