{"id":2640,"date":"2010-07-21T19:59:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2010-07-21T19:59:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T23:59:52","slug":"the-top-idea-in-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/21\/the-top-idea-in-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top Idea in Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/top.html\">Paul Graham<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/top.html\"><p>I suspect a lot of people aren&rsquo;t sure what&rsquo;s the top idea in their mind at any given time. I&rsquo;m often mistaken about it. I tend to think it&rsquo;s the idea I&rsquo;d want to be the top one, rather than the one that is. But it&rsquo;s easy to figure this out: just take a shower. What topic do your thoughts keep returning to? If it&rsquo;s not what you want to be thinking about, you may want to change something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rings true.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Graham: I suspect a lot of people aren&rsquo;t sure what&rsquo;s the top idea in their mind at any given time. I&rsquo;m often mistaken about it. I tend to think it&rsquo;s the idea I&rsquo;d want to be the top one, rather than the one that is. But it&rsquo;s easy to figure this out: just take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}