ideas
The friction between idea and ability that AI evangelists promise to eradicate is not a problem suffered by a disadvantaged few. It’s the fundamental condition of the writer, and it is precisely through that friction that we discover what it is we actually have to say.
rayne fisher-quann • Choosing to walk
ideas only become clear once you begin to work on them
It’s not as though Dylan can just sit down and write a classic, era-defining song. Rather, ideas percolate in his mind. Consider that “Like a Rolling Stone” started out as a twelve-page draft that Dylan described as a “long piece of vomit.”⁶
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century
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Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud
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Our time is for crossing barriers, for erasing old categories - for probing around. When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised, put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.
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delightfully executed
SAM ALTMAN: Good ideas — actually, no, great ideas are fragile. Great ideas are easy to kill. An idea in its larval stage — all the best ideas when I first heard them sound bad. And all of us, myself included, are much more affected by what other people think of us and our ideas than we like to admit.
If you are just four people in your own door, an
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One thing that sets these intensely creative individuals apart, as far as I can tell, is that when sitting with their thoughts they are uncommonly willing to linger in confusion. To be curious about that which confuses. Not too rapidly seeking the safety of knowing or the safety of a legible question, but waiting for a more powerful and subtle ques
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