5. I know…
•I’ll write a 550 page travel
book for nerds
•The covers the whole world
•That includes description of
the science behind each
place
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8. I know…
•I’ll persuade the British
Government to apologize
for the prosecution of
Alan Turing
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9. The Crazy Idea Logical Fallacy
• That’ll never work because of
X, Y and Z
• Yet everyone knows that
assumptions turn out to be
wrong
• So, the antecedent (X, Y, and
Z) is false!
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10. I know…
•I’ll start a charity
dedicated to building
Charles Babbage’s never
constructed “Analytical
Engine”
Plan 28: http://plan28.org/
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19. Three “Be”s
1. Be courageous
2. Be charming
3. Be reasonably
unreasonable
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20. Signposts
• Charles Babbage and Plan 28:
http://plan28.org/
• The Geek Atlas:
• http://geekatlas.com/
• The job board where your Hacker
News karma gets you the right to post:
http://usethesource.com/
• CloudFlare: http://cloudflare.com/
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Editor's Notes
Snowflake: unique, fragileRadioactive: neutrons leave the idea to hit other ideas. Also neutrons arrive from other places.
Ideas are all around. You just need to know where to look, or at least how to make your brain find them. You need idea food.Idea anagrams. Feed it with novel ideas. Maybe even read novels.Problem solving requires thinking, idea finding seems to involve not thinking. Or at least capturing an idea and then applying thinking to it.
Scratching an itch. I was just bored that weekend.
You can’t see shooting stars if you look too hard
Control your connectivity
How much more effort is a big idea that a small idea? Also, you need to attract people to help you: big ideas are better.
