Relevant: One of my favorite pg quotes, from http://www.paulgraham.com/word.html http://www.paulgraham.com/word.html: "Like real world resourcefulness, convers

Relevant: One of my favorite pg quotes, from http://www.paulgraham.com/word.html http://www.paulgraham.com/word.html: "Like real world resourcefulness, conversational resourcefulness often means doing things you don't want to. Chasing down all the implications of what's said to you can sometimes lead to uncomfortable conclusions. The best word to describe the failure to do so is probably "denial," though that seems a bit too narrow. A better way to describe the situation would be to say that the unsuccessful founders had the sort of conservatism that comes from weakness. They traversed idea space as gingerly as a very old person traverses the physical world." Since reading that, I've loved the idea of traversing idea space the way you might look for easter eggs in video games- click all the things, flip over all the stones!