Interesting diff in intellectual approaches. For some people the first step after having an idea is to find and talk to someone in their network who’s had the most similar thoughts. For me that’s the last step if it’s a step at all.
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If you’re an academic you *have* to socialize your ideas early as a practical matter, even when you don’t need the “input”, to lubricate the publication/peer-review pipeline. Consultation is often insincere pre-emptive flattery in academic publishing.
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If you’re an entrepreneur with limited runway, you *have* to socialize your ideas early to derisk them to within the risk-tolerance of the funding model. Entrepreneurs don’t take risks so much as filter them to match their handling capacity.
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But if neither publish/perish treadmill, nor a limited runway is constraining you, you can let ideas develop and get sociable on their own time, based on their own personality. They’ll flow following path of least resistance and risk if you let them.
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There are extroverted and introverted ideas. Ideas that want to make 100 friends on day 1 and grow in the heart of the idea network, and ideas that want to be left alone in a log cabin for a decade to develop.
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Do you do quiet background research to see what other people have done before doing much of your own work? I have heard ppl take extreme approaches on this point: none at all vs. Exhaustive review
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Neither. My "background research" consists mostly of just looking into things for pleasure. The "work" part is simply noticing anything that happens to link interestingly to something I'm thinking of, and incorporating if useful. So it can be shallow/deep depending on serendipity
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