how to coparent baby ideas - by Anson Yu

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I love referring to ideas like they’re babies — a bit fragile, definitely impressionable, and if raised well, they can go far. Every week for two years, I’ve spent 10+ hours working with peoples’ baby ideas.1 The process gotten more elegant (and effective) over time. Not to reference Bell Labs for the 2342354th time but I’m reminded of this blurb on its most generative researchers: After crunching a lot of data, they found that the only thing the productive employees had in common was that "workers with the most patents often shared lunch or breakfast with a Bell Labs electrical engineer named Harry Nyquist. It wasn't that Nyquist gave them specific ideas. Rather, 'he drew people out, got them thinking’” There are certain people, like JZ and PA, that also wield this skill like black magic.2 They say the right combo of words and you leave imagining your ideas bigger and better than they were.3 The following is my best effort to multiply these force multipliers.4 How do you become someon

how to co-parent baby ideas becoming someone people trust with their ambitions Anson Yu Feb 05, 2024 84 10 8 Share I love thinking of ideas like they’re babies — a bit fragile, definitely impressionable, and if raised well, they can go far. Every week for two years, I’ve spent 10+ hours working with peoples’ baby ideas. 1 The process gotten more elegant and effective over time. I’m reminded of this blurb on Bell Lab’s most generative researchers: After crunching a lot of data, they found that the only thing the productive employees had in common was that "workers with the most patents often sh

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