I can easily relax my prunes and babble a lot—generate names, interpretations, whatever. But I’m quite disappointed that the babble is still of a low quality. What’s the point of generating 100 names for my startup if all of them are bad? @jacobjacob Are there any exercises specifically for that?
This week’s exercise was very unconstrained. My hypothesis for when really powerful things happen is when you learn to do constrained babble: “Here are 5 constraints: you must not destroy anything important as a side effect or going to the moon, your item weighs about 1kg, you must get there within 50 years,...”. I think there’s a skill of holding all the constraints in working memory and letting them guide your babble.
I can easily relax my prunes and babble a lot—generate names, interpretations, whatever. But I’m quite disappointed that the babble is still of a low quality. What’s the point of generating 100 names for my startup if all of them are bad? @jacobjacob Are there any exercises specifically for that?
(Should I reread the sequence?)
This week’s exercise was very unconstrained. My hypothesis for when really powerful things happen is when you learn to do constrained babble: “Here are 5 constraints: you must not destroy anything important as a side effect or going to the moon, your item weighs about 1kg, you must get there within 50 years,...”. I think there’s a skill of holding all the constraints in working memory and letting them guide your babble.