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Alex's Big List Of Ideas

Name: Alex's Big List Of Ideas
Uploaded: 2025-11-05T21:00:53+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this concise monologue, the speaker shares a personal system for handling the flood of business ideas that can overwhelm a company. He maintains a…

5 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this concise monologue, the speaker shares a personal system for handling the flood of business ideas that can overwhelm a company. He maintains a master document called "Alex's Big List of Ideas" where each new concept is logged and linked to a detailed memo outlining its mechanics and potential implementation. By periodically stepping back from the ideas, he gains perspective and can objectively assess whether an idea is viable or not. He emphasizes that the ideas that persistently occupy his thoughts—those that keep him up at night—are the ones worth further development. Finally, he stresses the importance of releasing work at a pace the business can sustain, ensuring that execution aligns with capacity.

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You absolutely have enough ideas to kill your business. So what we want to do is prevent that from happening. And so I honestly have a document that's called Alex's Big List of Ideas. And every time I have an idea, I totally flush it out. I put, you know, I put a link on the doc to another doc that has a big memo that has like, this is how it would work, this is what we'd make, this is how it blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. And then I keep living my life because you get so emotionally charged and sold on the idea while you're in the process of the idea, in the throes of the idea. But when you get a little bit of space, you're like, oh my God, this is how other people would hear this idea. And I agree with them. I think it's a terrible idea. But the The ones that like keep you up at night, that keep gnawing at you, those are the ones that like I'll flesh out more and more and more, but I still have to release the work at a rate that the business can handle.