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John Carmack on Idea Generation

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Last year at an internal talk at Facebook I was fortunate to see [John Carmack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack) speak about his idea generation system. At first I was disappointed because...

John Carmack on Idea Generation Wed Mar 09 2016 Last year at an internal talk at Facebook I was fortunate to see John Carmack speak about his idea generation system. At first I was disappointed because I was expecting one of Carmack's famous technical talks where he spends hours talking non-stop about programming languages, game development, large scale software engineering and many other interesting technical topics. Instead, he opened with talking about -- what is now a Silicon Valley cliche -- how ideas are overrated and execution is everything. Of course, cliches are sometimes cliches beca

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