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I find it amazing how many of the ideas from my vault exist in some form or other in the real world now.



I love the phrase "if you're the only one with an idea, it's probably a bad idea" :)


There's something to be said about "idea space".

most ideas hold little variance, and other people will have them. But some ideas can hold so much variance that no, nobody else in the world will even think about it.


This could be shortened to "if you have an idea then it is probably a bad idea" since most ideas are bad.


People seemed to take it as if I was bragging about how many good ideas I have had (parent comment 2 levels up). In reality what I find amazing is that most of my ideas were terrible, solutions looking for a problem, and I'm glad I didn't pursue them.


This happens to many people. You encounter a problem or inefficiency and think up of some software or hardware that would make it better.




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