What is a good idea? Can you tell them apart at the start?
- If your definition of a good idea alludes to any measure (user count, number of likes, validation, …) that can only be obtained when you are done, then
- you need a time machine to tell good and bad ideas apart
- or else you are just guessing.
- Most people waste valuable time perfecting their guess for what the most convenient future will look like and put no time in perfecting the hunch they started with.
Your job isn’t to be right about some idea you just had, but to future-proof your hunch so you can be successful at solving a real problem.
- You’ll have to accept that the problem or idea you’re working with now is still blurry, incomplete, wrong,… it is a hunch. It needs work.
