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Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• almost 5 years ago

I read this recently & I was initially like "nah https://t.co/lRiGUxBh9B is original!" then realized that while it's indeed unique and unmatched, it's totally a mashup of:  • iDoneThis  • Pick Four / Ziglar goal stuff  • nowdothis.​com (now dead)  • pomodoro technique  • &+ https://t.co/fLaXz57Lkn

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

64. Everything is a remix. (h/t @remixeverything) So there’s not much point trying to “be original”. Accept this, and then try to make the most interesting remixes you can. Make 100 remixes. “Originality” is just creative subconscious remixing. Cite your sources and inspiration

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago
Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean

@Malcolm_Ocean Citing your sources will make people trust / like you more, and maybe a blogpost about it will even win you users from those predecessors

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Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• almost 5 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv Yeah, I've talked about those sources in a couple places but I don't think I've written up a proper blog post about it.

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Rob Haisfield@RobertHaisfield• almost 5 years ago
Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean

@Malcolm_Ocean @visakanv Big agree that it makes people trust the product more - I find it fascinating when products build on the innovations of others/acknowledge their influences, but that may just be my academic adjacent background. Some interesting examples in this thread https://t.co/QqNJbtMfJh

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Rob Haisfield@RobertHaisfield• almost 5 years ago

What if products needed to cite their sources for functionality like academics do with research? What if they had to explicitly say what features of other apps and knowledge from other thinkers they were building on?

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Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️@Malcolm_Ocean• about 3 years ago
Replying to @RobertHaisfield

@RobertHaisfield @visakanv Took a couple years but this remix documentation now exists for https://t.co/lRiGUxBh9B! Will remix the thread into a blog post at a future date. https://t.co/uP8EfGCpmq

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8/13/2022
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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 3 years ago
Replying to @Malcolm_Ocean

@Malcolm_Ocean @RobertHaisfield ❤️‍🔥🔮💪🏾

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