3-1c3c Keep each ideas separately, because there is nothing absolute and necessary in the connections I make between them

“Creativity means any idea can lead to any other thought” – Naval Ravikant

Store each ideas separately and take them seriously. If you bind two or more ideas together and store them as an idea, you lose the ability to play with them—the connection is arbitrary after all. This is one reason why I prefer atomic evergreen notes.

Keep each problems separately as well. Problems should be well defined and should be actionable, because your future self might be able to solve new problems by reusing or recombining them. Mini-projects are also less scary than big ones.

But remember that there is no minimum idea—you have to simplify the problem, but don’t oversimplify.

Related Notes:

• 12-1e Nothing is necessary = Everything is contingent
  • And there lies the essence of analysis, digitization, and freedomdevelop
• This is why gradual improvement and tinkering—e.g., Popper’s piecemeal social engineering—often beat radical ‘revolutionary’ changes.
  • 1-2f1b3b French Revolution, Russian Revolution, and Chinese Revolution were analog. That is, not done in piecemeal error-correction fashion.
• 3-1c3c5 Best of all is when you can say they would’ve found this had they taken their own ideas seriously
• 4-1a4b3 If you write down ideas, you can have a conversation with each one of them individually, or with any configurations from them
• 9-4b3e1 Concise explanations accelerate. It helps others understand you better and faster at all scales.

Next:

• 3-1c3c0 Ideas have timing
• 3-1c3c1 To create is to recombine. Innovation happens when ideas have sex (either between people or with one’s past ideas). Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution.