# Brendan Cody-Kenny: Ideas Are a Means to Adventure

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### 2026-10-09 published #ai #building #exploration #ideas
Ideas Are a Means to Adventure
- Ideas are a way of travelling intellectually: follow one, discover something unexpected, change your mind, and arrive somewhere new.
- Once I've understood something, I want to know what comes next. By the time I've written it down, I'm often already somewhere else.
- That makes commercialisation difficult. Businesses reward persistence and refinement; I'm drawn to discovery and the next interesting thing.
- AI has dramatically shortened the distance between an idea and a working experiment. What once took months can sometimes be tested in an afternoon.
- If we can explore almost anything, when do we stop exploring and capture value? Perhaps judgement about what is worth staying with is the scarce resource.

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