Crazy New Ideas - Paul Graham  ## Metadata - Author: **Paul Graham** - Full Title: Crazy New Ideas - Category: #articles - URL: https://paulgraham.com/newideas.html ## Highlights - . So it's worth working on something that only has a 10% chance of succeeding if it would make things more than 10x better ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hs72pd2fd8cye2hbtct5v96q)) - But the main thing that leads reasonable people to dismiss new ideas is the same thing that holds people back from proposing them: the sheer pervasiveness of the current paradigm. It doesn't just affect the way we think; it is the Lego blocks we build thoughts out of. Popping out of the current paradigm is something only a few people can do. And even they usually have to suppress their intuitions at first, like a pilot flying through cloud who has to trust his instruments over his sense of balance ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hs72vyf1sqce9z6mv2e3k5c6)) - Most implausible-sounding ideas are in fact bad and could be safely dismissed. But not when they're proposed by reasonable domain experts. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hs6s2enf9gjw6chse1wva0f5))