A realized idea represents "a mountain of reality".

A realized idea represents "a mountain of reality". The closer it is to reality, the harder it is to change any aspect of it. As an idea becomes more realized the more it descends through multiple "layers".

Here's an example:

1. A thought in the brain
2. A note on a napkin
3. A bullet point list
4. A discussion with someone
5. A discussion with a group
6. A light specification
7. A wireframe mockup
8. A hifi mockup
9. A database schema
10. An API endpoint
11. Some HTML & CSS
12. Some javascript
13. A deployment to a test server
14. A QA developer testing it
15. A push to production

We should double down on iterating in layers 1-5 and try to get as close to the truth as possible before we move to the other slower layers.

This strategy is an exponential game changer. The fastest place to iterate is layer 1.