It doesn’t matter how good your ideas are if you can’t communicate them.
There are a lot of counterexamples to that one. If you've proved an important result, or solved a previously insoluble technical problem, you've done it, regardless of how well other people understand what you did. In the latter case you might even choose to keep it secret.
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It’s probably better stated that “Your ideas benefit greatly from you being able to communicate them well.” Communication isn’t a prerequisite, but it sure is a useful corequisite.
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The really interesting idea in this neighborhood is that there's a cycle: attempting to explain something to other people often causes you to improve it.
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Crypto is a great example. Solved a really significant technical challenge but in general, has been pretty poorly communicated.
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Excuse me, what challenge exactly? I worked in blockchain (if you're not talking about cryptography) and I'd say that it solves contrived problems most of the time. It is also overly communicated, though often in vain.
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I agree with your statement, but not with your examples. If you proved or solved and insoluble technical problem, it’s not an idea anymore. It’s reality. So not a good example.
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e.g. Bitcoin, page ranking, Hinton's backpropagation algorithm in 1986
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Leibniz actually requested that his paper introducing binary numbers not be published because most people thought the idea was totally useless.
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Interesting, do you think Bitcoin would have become what it is today had Satoshi’s white paper not been a masterpiece?
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Maybe the more nuanced way to capture both points is that creators don’t get to capitalize (i.e. financially) on things they can’t communicate effectively - but someone else will eventually.
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