Thinking aloud — Bad ideas

Here I explain why I'd like to share more thoughts and ideas.

Seth Godin says that to have good ideas, we need many bad ones first.

Image generated by Hec Perez with Midjourney

This reminds me of an anecdote. On the first day of class, a pottery teacher told her students that half of the class would be evaluated depending on the quality of the best piece of each student. The other half would be evaluated depending on the number of pieces they made. At the end of the course, the best pieces were among the people who focused on building many pieces. So repeated practice brings better results than focusing on building a masterpiece.

Moreover, Steve Jonhson states that most good ideas arise from the collision of different ideas from people with different backgrounds and skills.

So it’s possible that many of the ideas I share are bad or plain stupid. But some might make us think and lead somewhere positive.

I never feel sure something will work, but any study of history suggests it's even harder to be certain in the other direction. — Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI

That's why I'd like to think aloud and publish more ideas — even bad ones.

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