ideas

by Prashanth Narayan and · updated 2mo ago

From Donald Knuth “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”
sari added 1y ago
I like the life of ideas so much in my head that I often am reluctant to bring them into the world, even when I know my life and others' lives may be better when the thing gains external life h/t (Davey Morse / Plexus)
sari added 1y ago
An idea is a feeling that something great lurks beneath the surface. It's a direction more than a roadmap. The process of taking a small, talented team from nothing to an extraordinary product involves millions of small decisions. It will require heaps of healthy conflict and many sleepless nights. We so badly want to believe our initial ideas are
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sari added 8mo ago
Jeff Bezos in the Lex Fridman podcast:
efficiency and invention are sort of at odds, because invention, real invention, not incremental improvement, incremental improvement is so important in every endeavor, in everything you do, you have to work hard on also just making things a little bit better. But I'm talking about real invention, real lateral
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sari added 10mo ago
Whenever there is an argument between two ideas, find the third idea.
sari added 1y ago
It takes repetition for an idea to settle into the zeitgeist with enough weight that it provokes your wanting to change the way you think about the idea (and therefore the way you think about the world).
sari added 1y ago
If you touch an idea too much without actually making it, just like a dough or plaster, it dies. I think it’s better to make and bake it and throw it away than to imagine how it would have worked or tasted. —Zeynab Izadyar
alex added 1y ago
Ursula Le Guin: "They talked, and new worlds were born of their talking. It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on."
Timour Kosters added 1y ago
“Insight comes, more often than not, from looking at what’s been on the table all along, in front of everybody, rather than from discovering something new.” —David McCullough
alex and added 1y ago
David Lynch on ideas: Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait.The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in—those ideas. The beautiful thing is that when you catch one fish that you love, even if it's a little fish—a fragment of an idea—that fish will draw in other ... See more
sari added 1y ago