The Dumb Idea Paradox: Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb. at andrewchen
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The Dumb Idea Paradox: Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb. at andrewchen
For when someone says “I’ve seen this before, it didn’t work” — D'Arcy Coolican
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In a 2010 essay, Chris Dixon wrote, "The next big thing will start out looking like a toy." Provocative. What he meant was that new technologies are often dismissed as toys because they undershoot user needs, and that that ones that make it out of toy phase and into the zeitgeist do so because they ride external forces.