1/ The trick to having many good ideas is to give away credit for ideas faster than they hit you. Or not claim credit to begin with.
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2/ Unlike nature, ideas love a vacuum. I get at least two good ideas for every one I don't try to hold on to.
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3/ Holding on too tightly or being overprotective of an idea is a guaranteed way to not have any more. Ideas don't like being caged.
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which is one reason I don't like visions, except in a few domains they do more harm than good. Visions are for hedgehogs.
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rumination is not the same thing as a vision. I agree ideas must gestate. But when they want out, I let them go.
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To wax poetic, when idea is itching to get out, and you've eliminated validation-hunger as a reason, it means it needs 2nd head
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there is no correlation to medium. Some bloggers rush book-sized ideas prematurely to blog format for fear of being scooped :)
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. no idea is ever fully baked, not even a math theorem. It's all a WIP. Share as/when it wants to be shared.
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. I really don't like the idea of "building an audience." Ideas find you, the audience finds you via ideas, and builds you.
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