Finding great, game-changing ideas requires both generation and curation.

The generation function products sparks that could be great.

The curation function figures out which sparks might actually catch.

You need both the generation and the curation to actually find great ideas.

Different people excel at different parts of this process.

LLMs, it turns out, are pretty good at generating lots of ideas, of riffing and coming up with various options when given a frame.

The superpower in this era becomes not so much generation but being able to curate.

To select great ideas from among the chaff.

Judging them, applying your calibrated taste.