Chris Koerner

Why has no one ever thought of this before?

And then you kind of get into it and you get into that sort of valley of, oh, fuck, this is a terrible idea.

I'm an idiot.

If I can come out of that valley, if something pulls me up out of that valley, then I think it's worth pursuing.

Yeah.

That's a good way of looking at it.

The valley of despair or something.

That's what they call it.

Yeah.

Do you follow a similar sort of path with your ideas?

It's funny because my kind of framework is...

If I have an idea, am I thinking about it still two weeks later?

For whatever reason, that's just my timeline, two weeks.

I had an idea yesterday, and I was at the airport.

I was excited about it, and I was doing research.

I feel like I forgot about it, right?

Who cares?

But I have ideas where I just cannot get it out of my head, and I'll see something out there in the world that adds to the idea, and I tell my friend about it, and I send these manic voicemails or these manic voice notes to my friends about it, and I'm still thinking about it two weeks later.

That's my signal that there's actually something here.

You used the word validating earlier on when you're talking about these ideas.