{"id":2298,"date":"2014-04-14T08:32:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T12:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2014-04-14T08:32:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T12:32:56","slug":"you-dont-need-ideas-you-need-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"you don&#8217;t need ideas &#8211; you need questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham <a href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/ideas.html\">asserts<\/a> that startup\u00a0<em>ideas<\/em> aren&#8217;t what&#8217;s important &#8211; and, in fact, think you need an &#8220;idea&#8221; is a major roadblock.<\/p>\n<p>Convert your thinking from &#8220;idea&#8221; to &#8220;question&#8221;, and you have a potential curiosity to explore, tweak, develop, and <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2013\/03\/18\/delivering-solutions-shipping-is-a-feature\/#.U0QXOa1dUrY\">deliver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your best work is going to come when you&#8217;ve thought about the problem but didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/paulgraham.com\/top.html\">know<\/a> you were thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>So stop trying to get an <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/category\/ideas\/#.U0VY9q1dUrY\">idea<\/a> &#8211; ask <a href=\"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/tag\/35-questions\/#.U0VY1q1dUrY\">questions<\/a>, and chase them down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham asserts that startup\u00a0ideas aren&#8217;t what&#8217;s important &#8211; and, in fact, think you need an &#8220;idea&#8221; is a major roadblock. Convert your thinking from &#8220;idea&#8221; to &#8220;question&#8221;, and you have a potential curiosity to explore, tweak, develop, and deliver. Your best work is going to come when you&#8217;ve thought about the problem but didn&#8217;t &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=2298\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">you don&#8217;t need ideas &#8211; you need questions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[156,609,717],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas","tag-business","tag-question","tag-startup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}