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Most of the ideas are stupid. In theory one should be patient and listen so they catch that one in a hundred good idea. In practice it's difficult. Perhaps the
by danielmarkbruce 2y ago
Most of the ideas are stupid. In theory one should be patient and listen so they catch that one in a hundred good idea. In practice it's difficult. Perhaps the best you can hope to do is be pleasant.
- JohnFen 2y agoMost ideas are stupid regardless of the source. But even when someone -- particularly an outsider -- proposes an idea that is "stupid", there's usually value there. What they're really doing is pointing out a pain point they're actually having. Their proposed solution may not be viable for any number of reasons, but the problem they're trying to solve is usually real. The value is that a pain point has been revealed.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoYup, mostly agree. It's also dependent on your definition of "outsider". In payments as an example, a lawyer is most definitely an "insider". I saw lots of lawyers with ideas which were superficially bad and would be dismissed by product/eng when they should have been debated because there was a kernel of something there.
- OJFord 2y agoMy wife's a doctor and had a patient recently who said 'no, I don't think it's that'. Test results came back; it was that. (Patient then said 'ooh well done' apparently, so this was perhaps more a case of condescension & distrust towards a young/female doctor than interested outsider offering ideas, but still your comment reminded me of the story. It was something obscure and internal too, a completely ridiculous thing for a (non-medico) patient to have an opinion about, not something visible like a spot or bruising you could kind of understand the temptation to disagree about.)