Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
All original ideas are combinations of other people’s ideas. So the more you curate other people’s ideas, the more you develop your own rare and valuable ideas
“What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” — William Ralph Inge
Austin Kleon • Steal Like An Artist - a book by Austin Kleon
It’s okay to borrow ideas, but you have to make them your own.
People dramatically under estimate how many decisions one has to make before shipping the v1 of even the simplest product. They all seem obvious in retrospect, but so, so much thinking had to happen to ship something like "press a button, get a ride."
Monopolies are bad. Violence is bad. Monopolies on violence turn out to be one of the best ideas ever. Go figure. #ThinkingIsHard
“Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands (and occasionally, contracts) over time.”
-“Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
@TrungTPhan: Went down a rabbit hole for cross-industry innovations (when one industry borrows from another).
Here are 8 gems.
1. James Dyson made a bagless vacuum after seeing how sawmills used cyclone force to eject sawdust.
, Cosmos, Tumblr, etc- focus on "inspiring" by making us jump from stimulus to stimulus. What I'm really interested in is meaning-making platforms that help us engage with stimulus to layer on new thoughts, comments, ideas. Kind of what "quote retweet" did for Twitter.
10. People don't have ideas. Ideas have people.