An essay on how to refine an idea

[stuartpb]

There are a lot of ideas on the old Projects idea board I'm pulling this from that, in hindsight, weren't good ideas, and I'm not throwing them in the mix. Some simply became redundant in the time since I proposed them (for example, I have a note from 2013 basically describing what Patreon would become): others were essentially just wishes for communities around certain models of content with no real thought put into how such a context would arise (for example, there's at least one card describing something to the effect of "someone proposes a problem, and a bunch of other people write forkable blog posts discussing how to fix it").

For all the introspection and stuff I've written in places like https://github.com/stuartpb/how-i-roll, I seem to have skipped over this pretty significantly: I guess I should maybe tackle this in Lean Notes, now that I think about it.