7-1d2 Technology changes the problem-situation, and determines which ideas are possible and obsolete
7-1a2a You will be solving universal problems by attending to local-parochial problems first
7-1a5 Startups work on technology because great ideas made viable by newest tech (itself a new technology) is the best source of rapid change and growth
8-1c4a2 Twitter’s 140-character limit was useful constraint
9-1a3 The maxima in the space of startup ideas are not spiky and isolated.
New theory is constrained in terms of what they can say, since it must either be consistent with existing theories, or contradict them but address the problems thereby raised. In short, new theories have to solve more problems than existent ones.
As the Idea Maze gets better in the sense of reflecting the reality more accurately, it becomes harder to fool yourself:
1-2h A good explanation makes it harder to fool yourself
9-4b2a1b Build the Idea Maze - Explain the history around an idea, and why yours is a good one. Virtually render the history of the evolution of that idea.