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Slow hunches
Good ideas develop slowly over time. They start out as rough ideas that have bits of greatness, but lack pieces to the puzzle. The key is to keep them alive in writing and develop them as you make sense of more things.
Commonplace books are an early example of a system where people developed ideas over time. They involved transcribing interesting ideas from the books and articles they were reading.
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If you go back and look at all sorts of innovations throughout history, the lightbulb moment almost never really exists. It’s almost always this long process where somebody has a fragment of an idea and it sits in their head for a year, or two years, or ten years befor...
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The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.
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