If there is a phrase that bugs me as much as "nothing is original", it is "ideas are cheap, execution is everything" - the perfect slogan for our materialist, capitalist culture. Yes everyone has a million ideas floating around in their head, often going nowhere. 1/3 https://twitter.com/liasomething/status/1320330475416727558

... But sometimes we just need to see or hear someone else say something, maybe not even that profound, maybe even something that we already know. But we still need to hear someone else say it, to awaken it inside us, to encourage and/or inspire us to then act on it. 2/3

That other person's idea then, is not cheap - *even if we already had the same idea*, somewhere dormant with us. For without that trigger, we might not have acted, and the fruit of our actions would not have came to be. That other person's idea then, is not cheap. 3/3

(This is not a call for 'ownership' or non-sharing of ideas, but a call towards an understanding of the value of the network of influence. I.e. Not a culture where the *person who has an idea* guards or patents it, but a culture where the *person acting*, acknowledges its value)

wrt "Nothing is original", I find indicative of a simplistic binary view whereby artifacts are divided into a false dichotomy of "original" vs "unoriginal" (& since nothing is "original", everything is "unoriginal"), failing to capture the multidimensional continuum of the space