NonTrivial

You Need More Bad Ideas

January 19, 2024 Sean McClure Season 5 Episode 4
You Need More Bad Ideas
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NonTrivial
You Need More Bad Ideas
Jan 19, 2024 Season 5 Episode 4
Sean McClure

History is loaded with "bad" / "dumb" ideas. And this includes those made by high-ranking officials and government agencies. Looking at the various schemes and plots left on the drawing board one wonders how anyone took them seruously.  But most of today’s useful inventions were deemed absurd at the time. This tells us that we need to have a lot of bad ideas to land on good ones, and if that's true, then we should be more concerned with taking the shots, then landing the shots.

Suggested Reading Related to Intro Example
Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton

Episode Music for Intro Example
Sneaky by Oleg Kyrylkovv

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Show Notes

History is loaded with "bad" / "dumb" ideas. And this includes those made by high-ranking officials and government agencies. Looking at the various schemes and plots left on the drawing board one wonders how anyone took them seruously.  But most of today’s useful inventions were deemed absurd at the time. This tells us that we need to have a lot of bad ideas to land on good ones, and if that's true, then we should be more concerned with taking the shots, then landing the shots.

Suggested Reading Related to Intro Example
Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton

Episode Music for Intro Example
Sneaky by Oleg Kyrylkovv

Support the Show.

Check out the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@nontrivialpodcast