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aflinik on May 1, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas

If you had a better idea you should have started with it in the first place.

It should work equally well as a creativity trigger, and if nobody comes up with something different you still end up with a choice that's not so bad.

jonb on May 1, 2013 [–]

Indeed. Steve Jobs apparently said "The name of the company is Apple unless you can think of something better by tomorrow." And they couldn't.

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