Ideas Are a Means to Adventure

2026-10-09 · published

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.