I’m assuming you mean “new to you” ideas, not actually novel concepts for humanity as a whole. Both are rare, the latter almost vanishingly so. A lot of things we consider “new ideas” for ourselves are actually “new salience of an existing idea” or “change in relative weighting of previous ideas”.
All to say that your rhetorical question is not the best way to think of this. Novelty isn’t the hard part for ideas, it’s application to decisions and weighting of competing ideas. Similarly, “recommendation” isn’t the problem, it’s one (imperfect) solution to the problem of decision-making costs (search costs in economic frameworks).
You’re right it’s not about time learning vs time practicing. It’s about time in decision-making (including research, planning, and modeling results) vs time in action. Often called the explore vs exploit problem, and often framed as if it is knowledge being sought, but that’s mostly because it’s easier to come up with examples of that than examples of time spent deciding which framework fits better.
I’m assuming you mean “new to you” ideas, not actually novel concepts for humanity as a whole. Both are rare, the latter almost vanishingly so. A lot of things we consider “new ideas” for ourselves are actually “new salience of an existing idea” or “change in relative weighting of previous ideas”.
Uh, please do not say this unless you have spent a significant number of hours actually trying to do some research/novel conceptual work. If you do, you might, spoiler alert, find out that what you stated here is rather wrong
“I’m assuming you mean “new to you” ideas, not actually novel concepts for humanity as a whole. Both are rare, the latter almost vanishingly so. A lot of things we consider “new ideas” for ourselves are actually “new salience of an existing idea” or “change in relative weighting of previous ideas”.”—well that was kind of the point. That if we want to help people coming up with new ideas is somewhat overrated vs. recommending existing resources or adapting existing ideas.
I’m assuming you mean “new to you” ideas, not actually novel concepts for humanity as a whole. Both are rare, the latter almost vanishingly so. A lot of things we consider “new ideas” for ourselves are actually “new salience of an existing idea” or “change in relative weighting of previous ideas”.
All to say that your rhetorical question is not the best way to think of this. Novelty isn’t the hard part for ideas, it’s application to decisions and weighting of competing ideas. Similarly, “recommendation” isn’t the problem, it’s one (imperfect) solution to the problem of decision-making costs (search costs in economic frameworks).
You’re right it’s not about time learning vs time practicing. It’s about time in decision-making (including research, planning, and modeling results) vs time in action. Often called the explore vs exploit problem, and often framed as if it is knowledge being sought, but that’s mostly because it’s easier to come up with examples of that than examples of time spent deciding which framework fits better.
Uh, please do not say this unless you have spent a significant number of hours actually trying to do some research/novel conceptual work. If you do, you might, spoiler alert, find out that what you stated here is rather wrong
“I’m assuming you mean “new to you” ideas, not actually novel concepts for humanity as a whole. Both are rare, the latter almost vanishingly so. A lot of things we consider “new ideas” for ourselves are actually “new salience of an existing idea” or “change in relative weighting of previous ideas”.”—well that was kind of the point. That if we want to help people coming up with new ideas is somewhat overrated vs. recommending existing resources or adapting existing ideas.