Tag: the idea room

  • Your Idea Doesn’t Need to Make Sense to Everyone Yet

    Your Idea Doesn’t Need to Make Sense to Everyone Yet

    I think we kill some of our best ideas by asking them to become businesses too quickly. An idea appears. It’s exciting. A little strange. You can see pieces of it, but you don’t completely understand what it is yet. And instead of giving ourselves time to explore it, we immediately start interrogating it. What’s…

  • You Don’t Have Too Many Ideas. You Have No System for Choosing Between Them

    You Don’t Have Too Many Ideas. You Have No System for Choosing Between Them

    Having 30 ideas feels creative until all 30 are sitting unfinished in your Notes app. I have never had a shortage of ideas. If anything, I’ve had the opposite problem. One thought becomes five. I can start thinking about an article and somehow end up imagining a book, a website, a product, a photoshoot, a…