✨ Where great ideas come from
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
Great ideas require taste
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. – Robert Hughes
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Research as leisure: A desire to ask and answer questions, a commitment to evidence, an understanding of what already exists, an output, a certain degree of contemporary relevance, and a community
Dan Shipper • Five New Thinking Styles for Working With Thinking Machines
Essences vs. sequences
Beauty in the machine: post-industrial design
Ideas evolve gradually over years and decades into their final shape. The new form has many micro decisions behind it
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
Building thoughts and ideas over decades
Good things take time. Some of the best companies took many years before they found the right recipe

If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong.
Taste requires focus