A while ago, I wrote on my main blog about more intentionally disambiguating “impossible” things from things that are merely very difficult. The idea has since grown with me, and recently I gave a talk for the Startmate Fellowship about a related idea, which is that you should approach new ideas with a “possible by default” mindset. I think as we grow up and go through school and work, we’re conditioned into an “impossible by default” mindset, where the assumption about any part...
