Dear Bob ... I'm not really asking for advice. I'd like to share a thought and get your reaction. I was reading the second of my John Boyd books and have found a kindred spirit. Ideas from everywhere and just going off in many directions. But also found a source of frustration and a realization of why so many of these folks go down in flames. Some completely drop out and some do it permanently. I understand the Dear Bob …I’m not really asking for advice. I’d like to share a thought and get your reaction.I was reading the second of my John Boyd books and have found a kindred spirit. Ideas from everywhere and just going off in many directions. But also found a source of frustration and a realization of why so many of these folks go down in flames. Some completely drop out and some do it permanently. I understand the impulse.You go along in logic and pursue it with a vengeance. There is a reason for it and mostly it is noble. Yet at some point you transition into intuition. It is a break through and yet you barely notice you have transcended logic. Like a leap that logic has to follow (and not lead).From this point the frustration begins because folks no longer understand what you say. Further on you discover that you cannot explain things, for how do you explain intuitive things. This is where the major break from the world comes. If we are not careful madness will set in. Striving to discover the light and when you find it, you discover that it is of a wavelength no one else can see. And thus they do not even believe it exists.Does this make sense to you?– On a different wavelength Dear Fourier …I think there are two different things going on, and it’s important to separate them. The first is how we arrive at new ideas. It’s rarely through a logical process. I don’t know that it’s provable that logic can’t lead to truly new ways of looking at the world, but I hope it is. Otherwise we’ll reduce creativity to an algorithm, and there won’t be much purpose to having human beings around anymore.To give you a ferinstance, many of my new ideas come from mis-hearing or misunderstanding someone else. What I thought they’d said was very new and incredibly interesting. What they actually said was mundane and dull, but it doesn’t matter – I got a new insight out of the deal. How we arrive at new ideas is one thing. The next question is how we decide whether our shiny new idea is worth anything or is just a bunch of neural firing that’s infusing us with a sense of well-being. That requires logic – careful logic, since if you’re like me you want the new idea to be worthwhile.Put it this way: It’s an interesting new idea when it occurs to me. It’s worth sharing when I can explain it. That, in fact, is why I put so much energy into figuring out how to explain a new perspective within the experiential framework of readers who don’t share it. Yet.So … if you’re dealing with a wavelength only you can see, that doesn’t get you off the hook. Bees can see ultraviolet light directly. Humans can’t, but somehow some scientists figured out it must be there, and also figured out how to persuade everyone else that it’s there, too. Isn’t that what language is for?– Bob ——– Technology Industry