'Don’t ignore your stupid ideas.'

Re:'Don’t ignore your stupid ideas.' by gyardley on Thursday February 03, 2011 @03:26PM (#2176637)

It reminds you that when your small ideas require proportionately small efforts, you might as well do them and see what happens.

Too many people inappropriately shrug off their smaller thoughts as not worth doing, because they're not going to 'change the world' or some other low-probability outcome.

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Re:'Don’t ignore your stupid ideas.' by phillco on Thursday February 03, 2011 @03:50PM (#2176739)

I noticed this a lot when I tried blogging a couple of summers ago. The articles I thought would be hits bombed, and the stupid ones I wrote just for fun [1] ended up being huge successes.

Inevitably, I just resigned myself to the fact that I don't know what'll be successful, and the only way to find out if something will work is to do it.

[1] http://phillipcohen.net/articles/simcity/ (got like 30,000 hits)

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Re:'Don’t ignore your stupid ideas.' by j_baker on Thursday February 03, 2011 @06:34PM (#2177512)

I've noticed the same thing with comments on HN. More often than not, it's the silly one-liner that gets voted up rather than the thoughtful, introspective, and deep comment. I suppose human attention is always the biggest force you have to contend with.

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