How to Get New Ideas

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Paul Graham
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This hits directly at Brian's core challenge as a solopreneur juggling multiple side projects - how to systematically generate valuable ideas rather than randomly stumbling into them. Paul Graham's framework about finding ideas "at the edges of what we know" is particularly relevant for someone building across fintech, AI tooling, and developer productivity where the intersection points often contain the most opportunity.

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AI/agents/future of software work - Primary Side projects/automation/earning from skills - Primary Engineering craft/architecture/productivity - Secondary

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