The Case for Intellectual Laziness: Why Rushing Ideas Kills Them
If you care about good ideas, you should probably be less aggressive about chasing them. Not inert, not apathetic, just slower and more deliberate than the current culture encourages. Most “new” insights are old patterns resurfacing in a different environment. Knowledge behaves less like a linear staircase and more like a looping trail system. Paths get overgrown, then cleared, sometimes burned and rebuilt. The mistake is not that we revisit the same ground....