Ian Vanagas

Our relation to ideas is an inextricable symbiosis, like that between plant and pollinator, a mutualism in which neither can survive without the other. At the dawn of civilization, a covenant was made between humans and these alien entities that live in our minds—honor and respect each other and all will flourish beyond their wildest dreams.

 We do not create or “have” ideas—if anything is doing the creating or having, it is the ideas themselves.

Just as important as the ability to share content itself is the ability to easily share how something is made. The most common remixed media is all visual; meme templates lay out the recognizable format and it’s intuitively obvious how to change them into messages that suit your niche or community.

When things are innovative, nobody really cares what they look like. 

Travis Kalanick started Uber as a hack to split a few private cars with his friends. Thefacebook.com was just a student directory written in PHP. Even Elon Musk started SpaceX with the goal of merely increasing NASA’s budget by pulling a PR stunt.

Solutions:1. Limit the amount of information provided to members2. Make information more digestible.3. Guide members on how to avoid information bankruptcy.

Companies talked about "delighting their users" because they ran out of ideas.