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PN: Most new ideas are incomplete


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Most new ideas are incomplete and vague. They are seeds of future ideas that must be completed by other insights that usually reside in other peoples' heads.

Liquid environments—networks where information can flow freely and interconnect in many unpredictable ways, help complete these unfinished ideas.

Furthermore, ideas take time to develop. As they linger in the shadows of your mind (sometimes for decades), they are gaining strength by assembling new connections.

This is not a hindrance but a power because truly new ideas require a perspective on a problem that nobody has ever had before, and this takes time.

In sum, new ideas start as vague hunches. They need time and other ideas to develop. These hunches tend to slip away, and they are lost forever. To avoid that, write everything down, and best to write it down in a system designed to catch hunches that facilitates interconnectivity, not categorization.

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R: The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb

By doing something you know (an objective or hypothesis) you find something that you didn't was there.

This shows that our platonicity and ludic fallacy—ridding reality of Black Swans through simplification due to our cognitive limitations—can work in our favor. You see, the hypothesis that hid BS could hide BS of the positive kind. When you test your hypothesis—implement it in reality—those BS get exposed leading to new things. The new things can be innovative on their own or they can act as a spare part (that was previously missing) to spark a novel idea. (PN: Most new ideas are incomplete)

  • The important feature of creativity—it's serendiputous. PN: Times of slack for serendipity
  • Secondly, this excerpt shows the recipe for creativity. In short, you must do stuff. Like in PN: How to get startup ideas, it's best to work on what interests you and keep living in the future. By building—i.e., externalizing your ideas in the physical world—you will discover things that only reality can disguise to you like in P: Bring the metaphysical into the physical
  • Does bringing the metaphysical into the physical work because we expose the ludic fallacy? Those idealized but simplified pieces of reality get uncovered and this is where inventions hide?
  • This shows that you have to have projects that you execute because they are what ena le serendipity. Putting thoughts into action in rral life can trigger new combinations like billiard balls hitting each other
  • therefore do shit. Ship stuff. Execute. Implement and be ready for inspiration to come. Not the other way around. This is the cardinal rule.
  • This also shows the side product of goals. You want to achieve on thing but you achieve another, unexpected because diving into reality shows you that your idealized goal was inaccurate, which is now irrelevant cuz you achieved more than you initially set out to.
PN: Innovation is about combining things

PN: Most new ideas are incomplete: innovations need other ideas to make baby ideas.

P: Greatest writing should flow out of you naturally

PN: Most new ideas are incomplete: by internalizing you're increasing the chances of completing a nascent idea.

P: Just start writing, ideas will come

It's also possible that the cues that appear during writing might feed incomplete ideas with missing parts (here: PN: Most new ideas are incomplete). Each cue acts as a billiard ball that has the potential to hit other billiard balls, that can hit other billiard balls, and so on until an idea is formed.

PN: Feed the mind and wait

PN: Most new ideas are incomplete: The mind has two functions – feeding and capturing. The consciousness is the powerhouse. After you've fed it, you let the immense intelligence make the magic, and you wait until the serendipitous idea occurs.

P: How to thrive in a Black Swan dominated world

By doing something you know (an objective or hypothesis) you find something that you didn't was there.

This shows that our platonicity and ludic fallacy—ridding reality of Black Swans through simplification due to our cognitive limitations—can work in our favor. You see, the hypothesis that hid BS could hide BS of the positive kind. When you test your hypothesis—implement it in reality—those BS get uncovered, leading to new things. The new things can be innovative on their own or they can act as a spare part (that was previously missing) to spark a novel idea. (PN: Most new ideas are incomplete)

  • The important feature of creativity—it's serendiputous. PN: Times of slack for serendipity
  • Secondly, this excerpt shows the recipe for creativity. In short, you must do stuff. Like in PN: How to get startup ideas, it's best to work on what interests you and keep living in the future. By building—i.e., externalizing your ideas in the physical world—you will discover things that only reality can disguise to you like in P: Bring the metaphysical into the physical
  • Does bringing the metaphysical into the physical work because we expose the ludic fallacy? Those idealized but simplified pieces of reality get uncovered and this is where inventions hide?
  • This shows that you have to have projects that you execute because they are what ena le serendipity. Putting thoughts into action in rral life can trigger new combinations like billiard balls hitting each other
  • therefore do shit. Ship stuff. Execute. Implement and be ready for inspiration to come. Not the other way around. This is the cardinal rule.
  • This also shows the side product of goals. You want to achieve on thing but you achieve another, unexpected because diving into reality shows you that your idealized goal was inaccurate, which is now irrelevant cuz you achieved more than you initially set out to.
P: Writing is a tool to explore your mind

PN: Most new ideas are incomplete: The exploration process you can discover juvenile ideas and accidently "feed" them with new input, making the grow and mature.