Created Thursday 25 February 2021
Ideas are termed as stupid because:
- They are too pedantic
- They are impractical
- They are irrelevant
- They won't make visible changes
- They cannot be used in a business
- There are better things that can be done
Many of these "reasons" are stemmed in bias and pessimism.
Goal - To find out if an idea is really bad. Or is it a gold mine. FIXME
Solution:
- Test the source of reason, if it is unfounded, Sagan standard is applicable.
- Take examples of many popular/(just failed) products and see what went wrong. Do this in a amenable way.
- Use the web to generate ideas and find data, and avoid biases in google search.
- Do 'Wizard of Oz' experiment
- Find out tentative criteria about what is important. If it looks connected to many things maybe the criteria is universal.
Check HCI slides to see how pessimism will end things.