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A way to test if your ideas are uninteresting is how much you align with certain people, or certain schools of thought. The fewer memetic buckets you scoop from, the more your ideas will align with those buckets. The simplest example of this is considering yourself a Republican or Democrat. If your ideas fully converge with the talking points of either party, then you haven't thought those ideas out that much. Or if you love everything Nassim Taleb says and agree with him on pretty much everything, you haven't diversified your inputs enough.
Improving Idea Flow
Nat Eliason
Be open to new paths and changes in direction
Part of the beauty of a web app is its fluidity. You don’t wrap it up in a box, ship it, and then wait years for the next release. You can tweak and change as you go along. Be open to the fact that your original idea may not be your best one.
Getting Real - The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
37Signals
Your contradictions are an asset. You’re a lover of classical English architecture *and* you’re also a dirty little punk—expressing both at the same time is more interesting than sharing *just* cute pictures of English gardens or *just* wild trashy stuff. The more you incorporate everything that you love and that comes easily for you (your interests, your sense of humor, your grammatical tics, etc), the more your style emerges.
Advice for a Friend Who Wants to Start a Blog
Henrik Karlsson
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