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A few personal random ideas. A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea!
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## How Ideas Happen
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- Most "new" ideas are the next reachable step from what already exists. Stairs, not teleportation.
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- Ideas show up when partial thoughts collide: people, artifacts (docs, code, past debates), ...
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- Many good ideas start half-baked. You keep them around until they meet the missing piece.
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- Failure is information. Feedback turns wandering into convergence.
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- Repurpose a thing built for one job into a different job. Reuse as invention.
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- Stable primitives and standards let lots of people build lots of things faster and safer.
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## Key Properties of Ideas
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- Timeless.