Yes And is an improv technique where you keep the energy in a scene alive by going w/ the other persons suggestion and adding more to it. “A: Wow is that your pet monkey? B: Yes and he’s also my doctor!”
Yes And is generative (creates a lot of output), as opposed to Hmm No which is critical (distills output)
A lot of the Sequences is Hmm No
It’s not that Hmm No is wrong, it’s that it cuts off future paths down the Yes And thought-stream.
If there’s a critical error at the beginning of a thought that will undermine everything else then it makes sense to Hmm No (we don’t want to spend a bunch of energy on something that will be fundamentally unsound). But if the later parts of the thought stream are not closely dependent on the beginning, or if it’s only part of the stream that gets cut off, then you’ve lost a lot of potential value that could’ve been generated by the Yes And.
In conversation yes and is much more fun, which might be why the Sequences are important as a corrective (yeah look it’s not fun to remember about biases, but they exist and you should model/include them)
Write drunk, edit sober. Yes And drunk, Hmm No in the morning.
Yes And is an improv technique where you keep the energy in a scene alive by going w/ the other persons suggestion and adding more to it. “A: Wow is that your pet monkey? B: Yes and he’s also my doctor!”
Yes And is generative (creates a lot of output), as opposed to Hmm No which is critical (distills output)
A lot of the Sequences is Hmm No
It’s not that Hmm No is wrong, it’s that it cuts off future paths down the Yes And thought-stream.
If there’s a critical error at the beginning of a thought that will undermine everything else then it makes sense to Hmm No (we don’t want to spend a bunch of energy on something that will be fundamentally unsound). But if the later parts of the thought stream are not closely dependent on the beginning, or if it’s only part of the stream that gets cut off, then you’ve lost a lot of potential value that could’ve been generated by the Yes And.
In conversation yes and is much more fun, which might be why the Sequences are important as a corrective (yeah look it’s not fun to remember about biases, but they exist and you should model/include them)
Write drunk, edit sober. Yes And drunk, Hmm No in the morning.
Babble and prune seems related
neat hadn’t seen that thanks