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Uncertainty

Ideas don't come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them.

The clear, complete idea is almost always a retrospective illusion. It looks that way in hindsight because the confusion happened before you arrived. In practice, starting is always working with insufficient information. The idea develops contact with reality: problems surface, assumptions fail, the shape of the thing changes. The only path to the clear version is through the unclear one. Waiting for the idea to be fully formed before starting is waiting for something that can only exist after starting.