{"id":5131,"date":"2013-04-06T04:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T04:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2023-04-24T23:06:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T23:06:07","slug":"the-problem-with-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-problem-with-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>> You know, one of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left John Sculley got a very serious disease. It\u2019s the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just tell all these other people \u201chere\u2019s this great idea,\u201d then of course they can go off and make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>> And the problem with that is that there\u2019s just a tremendous amount of craftsmanship in between a great idea and a great product. And as you evolve that great idea, it changes and grows. It never comes out like it starts because you learn a lot more as you get into the subtleties of it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/3497-you-know-one-of-the-things-that-really-hurt\">Steve Jobs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>> You know, one of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left John Sculley got a very serious disease. It\u2019s the disease of thinking that a really great idea is 90% of the work. And if you just tell all these other people \u201chere\u2019s this great idea,\u201d then of course they can&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/the-problem-with-ideas\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1kL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6280,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions\/6280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}