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Are you sure this is what you should be looking for?

The hope is to find a good fit individual or two to hack around with to find a big idea.

You'd do well to look for a good fit individual or two to work with long term. But not as well to look for a big idea. People are more important than ideas. What will you do if (when) the idea changes? Break up? Considering how hard it is for people to attune themselves to each other, finding people you want to work with is the problem you have to "solve" first anyway.

Stop consciously trying to look for ideas. You are better off following a passive route of not ignoring discomfort when your subconscious brings it to your attention.

[jkbennett]

Thanks for the feedback. Not the best phrase I guess.

I also agree that good fit in a team is critical and couldn't agree more with your notion of the subconscious coming up with most of the breakthrough ideas. I rely on that heavily using interest, frustration and tinkering as the guideposts, figuring out the right question and then doing something else or nothing at all and letting the big part of the mind do its thing in its own time. Might be the best habit I ever developed.