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danieltillett on Feb 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Idea Debt

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

rorykoehler on Feb 5, 2016 [–]

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.

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