THE VIDEO SHELF · idea overload and execution
Brain Crack (Explicit Version) :: Best of the Show :: 07-11-06
A short Ze Frank piece from his 2006 show about "brain crack", the rush of exciting new ideas that feel great but tend to fall apart once you start executing them.
Why HN readers recommended it
Shared as reassurance and a reality check for people with idea overflow who keep planning instead of doing.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Ze Frank
- Topic
- idea overload and execution
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
> Fast forward few more days or weeks, you're unexcited, you think this is hopelessly daft, you think no will care about it, and slowly de-motivation creeps in. Maybe the idea was not so good after all. That is not a bad thing. Keep on …
the-dude on Hacker News · 2016-09
In Getting things doneone of my reference on the topic is Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective" I recently started meditating with Sam Harris's Waking up, which is really helping on bringing more awareness in my life Rolls up newspaper.. thawack Stop that. You …
HopenHeyHi on Hacker News · 2023-03
In How do you deal with entrepreneurial obsession?
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.