A tar-pit idea is going after a space with a clear winner without any theory of being different.

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• A company where nobody is willing to upset anybody ends up fighting for the mediocre, politically expedient idea instead of the best one. TKTravis Kalanick14 Aug 2026
• The job of a design group is to try to shoot down every new idea; the ones that survive the attempt are probably the good ones. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026
• You can build anything now, but not everything is worth building; what matters is whether ideas take a shape somebody else would want to use. JBJohn Bai25 Aug 2026
• To reward the instinct that a new idea is worth having, training would have to score the smallness of the concepts a solution needs, not just whether it solved the problem. GSGrant Sanderson30 Jun 2026
• People are increasingly arriving at the same ideas simultaneously, removing the gradient that let new ideas spread from an originator outward. VRVenkatesh Rao28 Jul 2026

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