Ideas need fostering these days. As Scott Alexander describes, we live in a time where low-hanging fruits have been picked, and individuals rarely have the resources or time to pick any. But the picking could be distributed over time and over multiple people, and to do so, you need to get the ideas that are there out of people’s heads into a space where collaborating on them is possible. And reduce the natural tendency to hold on to “your” idea.
What’s the purpose? To have people encourage you to finish them? To look cool for having started something awesome?
Yes.
Ideas need fostering these days. As Scott Alexander describes, we live in a time where low-hanging fruits have been picked, and individuals rarely have the resources or time to pick any. But the picking could be distributed over time and over multiple people, and to do so, you need to get the ideas that are there out of people’s heads into a space where collaborating on them is possible. And reduce the natural tendency to hold on to “your” idea.