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Re:Tired? The importance of letting ideas marinate and perco... by bootload on Saturday September 27, 2008 @11:13PM (#317366)
"... Woz said that some of their best ideas (when building Apple) came after several days of not sleeping ..."

Don't confuse working on a problem for a long time, understanding it very clearly with having the idea in your head and regurgitating a solution in one long stint. Woz emphasized this in his 2005 Startup School talk. Understanding an idea so completely in your head you can simplify it no more.

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Re:Tired? The importance of letting ideas marinate and perco... by beaudeal on Sunday September 28, 2008 @01:29PM (#317691)
I'm not confusing anything, just restating what he said in his interview with Jessica. The actual quote is "When you get very, very tired -- and I had been up for four nights all night long; Steve and I got mononucleosis -- your head gets in this real creative state and it thinks of ideas that you'd normally just throw out."
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