Brain Crack (Explicit Version) :: Best of the Show :: 07-11-06

> Fast forward few more days or weeks, you're unexcited, you think this is hopelessly daft, you think no will care about it, and slowly de-motivation creeps in. Maybe the idea was not so good after all. That is not a bad thing. Keep on rocking. This guy puts it nicely I think: - [VIDEO] ( explicit ) - [LINK] ( PG rated ) "Most ideas kinda of suck when you do them." That is perfectly fine, move on to the next.

one of my reference on the topic is Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective" I recently started meditating with Sam Harris's Waking up, which is really helping on bringing more awareness in my life Rolls up newspaper.. thawack Stop that. You don't need that shit. Listen to Ze Frank about Brain Crack (he is a very nice man from a long ago interwebs where people didn't try to sell you self help bullshit): [VIDEO]

I have a little script I use to "flush out" and de-romanticize business ideas. It asks some of the hard questions you need to consider to turn an idea into a proper business: [LINK] Also for community projects: [LINK] And science papers: [LINK] Inspired by ZeFrank: [VIDEO]

Ideas no, but I sometimes drag snippets of text to the desktop too and they get saved as `.textClipping` files. I think ideas are folder-like structures so I usually create a folder to store code/links/pdfs/clippings specific to that idea, then file away that Idea folder as one piece. My general advice is to spend less time planning and more time doing, else you might get stuck on what Ze Frank calls "Brain Crack" [VIDEO]

So true. I have a similar story, and can add that people use all sorts of things to not work on the project. Smoking weed and drinking are common, but I have found analysis paralysis to be very common in smart people. Executing is hard for a number of reasons, and the hardest to get over is that you'll likely prove your idea sucks and was just braincrack [1]. [1] [VIDEO] (contains cursing)

[VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK] For those of you who suffer from this, don't worry! It works out in the end, and it's just part of growing up. Reading random blog posts isn't going to solve your problem with motivation. Smoke a joint and cut yourself some slack.

Why remove downvoting directly? I'm not against the idea, I just want to understand the thinking. I wonder if the problem is the binary nature of so many things. 5 star/1 star reviews are the most common, we have up and down votes, but no real context for that. I wonder if the problem that needs to be solved isn't context, rather than directional. This is me spitballing, so feel free to IGNORE everything below. I was listening to the Freakonomics podcast on proper voting (e.g. elections) the other day - this one: [LINK] - and there was an idea called quadratic voting. [LINK] Anyway, the idea is that we all get X votes, and we can vote more on some things, e.g. if we REALLY want marijuana legal, I can vote 4 votes. The twist is that the cost of extra votes is the square of the number of votes, 2 costs 4, 3 costs 9 (we all get maths works). The theory is this lets people vote on what they care about, much less than simply voting equally. I was wondering there isn't some way to create a system where you earn votes, that you can spend in some similar way, e.g. you "earn" upvotes from others, and can spend them elsewhere. If everyone got a single vote, but you earned extra votes you could spend in interesting ways at increasing cost, e.g. you could heavily downvote an idea at an exponential rate, it might make people less a victim of common denominator views, give fringe views more airtime, and make people consider a vote more deeply. Not just yes/no but how much do I hate/love th