What Jeff Kaplan thinks about ideas vs execution

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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11 Mar 2026

Our readingIdeas are infinite and worthless; vision is the ability to shepherd one into existence, and Titan had an idea with no path to reality.

Their wordsWhat I call vision is the ability to not only take a great idea, but shepherd it into existence, and you’re doing that through inspiration first and foremost.

↗Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493youtube.com 18th of 29 in this recording