If you ned a new year resolution, I suggest you consider setting out to outsmart a robot.
It's easy, embrace a preposterous hunch and make it real. Robots can't do that. Here are a nine books that will help you do just that. you can get them all here ( http://a.co/1dxdrcH ) or keep reading the tweet storm
1: Get What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by @xkcd to train yourself again to ask seemingly preposterous questions and find solid answers to them—something you likely stopped practicing after third grade.
2: @valleyhack biography Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future. It will give you a sense for how much practice it takes to reformulate a preposterous idea and how many times you’ll be told your ideas just won’t work. https://www.amazon.com/dp/006230125X/?ref=idea_lv_dp_ov_d
Take from it that whatever you set out to do, you can be certain you don’t know enough about it. It will take learning.
You are so unlikely to know everything you need to know to do something no one has done before that the very idea that you can be knowledgeable and prepared for what comes ahead is moronic.
3: You may also want to pick up a copy of the young reader’s version of @valleyhack biography of Elon Musk. Read it aloud to your kids. I did, and it sparked some awesome conversations with them about what it means to invent a future. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062463276/?ref=idea_lv_dp_ov_d
4 and 5: Read Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner and/or Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable just to get a sense for how misleading common sense can be. https://www.amazon.com/dp/081297381X/?ref=idea_lv_dp_ov_d
This will keep you sane and will help you ignore all the advice you’ll get about “validating” your idea. @nntaleb put it nicely in a recent tweet: “Social scientists want to ‘learn statistics’ w/o understanding probability.” https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/881500380479279104
6: Get @alexismadrigal Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. Even if energy isn't your thing, it will help when fear of technology has you second-guessing. You’ll need technology or, as Madrigal puts it, a “human-made thing.” https://www.amazon.com/dp/0306820994/?ref=idea_lv_dp_ov_d
The precise "human-made thing" you need may not yet be out there, but engineering is beautiful, and something similar has probably been tried that provides you with a starting point. And, you are human. Go for it: if what you need doesn’t exist, there’s a way to create it.
7: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman will help you realize that despite all our human creativity, there’s a lot of reptile in you. Deal with it. On your reptile days, sunbathe. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374533555/?ref=idea_lv_dp_ov_d
You’ll get two things from it: nothing ever works as expected, and progress comes from realizing what was wrong, not from failing.
The story makes sense even if you don’t fully understand every detail about the technology, but technology will be there, and limiting yourself to what you (or a user) know today is probably why all your ideas suck.
9: There’s one more book—my book—you should own: Innovating: A Doer’s Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong @mitpress http://amzn.com/0262035359  People tell me it's an especially beautiful-looking book
It’s about how you can start solving real-world problems with what you have now. It all begins with something preposterous, something that defies common sense and leaves you only critical thinking to work with http://on.mktw.net/2g7k5n4 
It is not about how innovations are, how special innovators get to be, what the future beholds, or how to predict the future. It's about how to think through building a future you want, and what to do next.
You don’t need step-wise "innovation" recipes. Step-wise recipes are for robots, anyway. And you're an awful robot, I know I am. http://bit.ly/OutSmartARobot 
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