It's how I've learned pretty much everything I've learned, and I touch on it here - but I think it's more assumed background context than anything stated explicity.
It's not just useful for maintaining motivation -- which is discussed here -- it's also crucial for exploration of the adjacent possible and positive feedback loops
@fortelabs talks about it in Intermediate Packets, but this is behind a paywall
It was incredibly familiar idea for me when I saw it, so this wasn't the generator -- but he is applying it to a space outside of learning, and haven't seen many say this b4
@stevenbjohnson's "Where Good Ideas Come From" is first I heard of [[The Adjacent Possible]] which makes the case for small projects that expand that space
Jim Collins talks about "The Flywheel" in [[Good to Great]] - which is where you want a feedback loop of recursive self improvement, and pretty clear how learning through concrete projects can feed into that
Collins is talking about organizations, still..
Maybe there isn't even an essay to point to - I absolutely learned this first from countless hours playing Sim Meir's Civilization franchise as a kid
but I feel like there has to be a good essay I can point to to introduce the concept
You ever been in that situation where the Pope recommends you some Norm MacDonald, and you fall asleep laughing, thinking - “man this guy has to be the best comic alive right now”
Recorded a 15 minute video to introduce folks on our team to some concepts that hopefully connect tasks their doing in training to the short and medium term vision, one of them told me "Feel like I get Roam now" and "You could just release this"
So...🤷♂️🙏
It's just 1 take of me drawing and talking
But perfect is the enemy of the good, [[good enough]] is the enemy of [[At All]] - and sometimes the hideous rough cut you release just to have SOMETHING ends up landing with people
On that note - if you'd like to see a video from three years ago, where 90% of it is about stuff we still haven't even really started building yet, I just made the video @mekarpeles cites public
There was a time where Detroit really was THE place to be if you cared about solving hard problems, then it became the place to be if you wanted to climb lucrative corporate ladders and gain lots of legible prestige