ideas only become clear once you begin to work on them
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ideas only become clear once you begin to work on them
Ideas can feel complete. It's only when you try to put them into words that you discover they're not. So if you never subject your ideas to that test, you'll not only never have fully formed ideas, but also never realize it.
—Paul Graham
—Paul Graham
Big ideas don’t show up fully formed, standing in our path. They need to be coaxed unto the open through persistent inquiry and exploration.
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push... See more
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Many ideas are provisional: they have yet to be fully grasped, made explicit, connected to what they should be connected to, had all their components implemented, carved at the joints, made available for use, indexed. Many important ideas are provisional. Playing with provisional ideas helps nurture them.
Please don't throw your mind away
the work of defining what needs to be done is harder than doing the work itself