Ideas Aren't the Bottleneck

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0600

Imagine that you’re six hours in with a wall of sticky notes and a facilitator asking everyone to dot-vote on ideas that all sound like the same idea. Somebody always jokes that we should just build all of them.

That exhaustion gets called idea fatigue. The initial diagnosis is that there’s a supply problem, as if there simply aren’t enough good ideas left to find. I don’t think that’s what’s happening.

Product-Ideation on David R. Longnecker - Converting Coffee to Code

Ideas Aren't the Bottleneck