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Inconceivable!

 Inconceivable!

Lightning talk from RubyConf 2015.

Ideas are everywhere.

Some ideas are so crazy that it would be absolutely, totally, and in
all other ways inconceivable that they could ever work. We almost
always reject these ideas out-of-hand.

Why do we reject the inconceivable ideas? Should we? What happens if we don't?

Randy Coulman

November 16, 2015
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  1. "You're probably smart enough to 'get it' merely by reading

    the 140 character summary of just about anything. But of course, that doesn't mean you understand it, or that it changed you. All it means is that you were quickly able to sort it into an appropriate category, to make a decision about where it belongs in your mental filing cabinet.” — Seth Godin http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/06/i-get-it.html
  2. The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse. It's

    a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you. — Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson From Rework
  3. The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into

    a category. They change it. They don't get filed away, they transform us. — Seth Godin http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/06/i-get-it.html
  4. "This experience has made me wonder what else I recorded

    in my brain long ago that no longer applies. What a waste to go through life with negative self- assumptions that aren’t even true anymore.” — Ben Orenstein http://robots.thoughtbot.com/clear-your-mental-cache