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You Need More Bad Ideas

Jan 19, 202425 minSeason 5Ep. 4
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History is loaded with "bad" / "dumb" ideas. And this includes those made by high-ranking officials and government agencies. Looking at the various schemes and plots left on the drawing board one wonders how anyone took them seruously.  But most of today’s useful inventions were deemed absurd at the time. This tells us that we need to have a lot of bad ideas to land on good ones, and if that's true, then we should be more concerned with taking the shots, then landing the shots.

Suggested Reading Related to Intro Example
Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton

Episode Music for Intro Example
Sneaky by Oleg Kyrylkovv

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