http://skrubu.net/2009/10/07/the-day-google-was-blank/
I think this goes to show that the secret to having better ideas is to have more ideas, and nobody cares about the million that suck, they care about the one that makes you a million.
or has Mr Page done a ridiculous amount of crazy that will never work things?
In order to pick, you must have things to pick between. I'm not sure you can even practice picking without having a backlog.
Would be interested in how Page chooses the ones he will invest personal energy into
I think a lot of the reason it works out is the existence of an external feedback loop, a group of people that are willing to say "Larry, you're insane." Larry is actually pretty good at listening to other people - even now, in the New Google that sometimes does very unpopular things, he's committed to at least hearing out objections and weighing them. When Eric was CEO he also provided a very useful countervailing force to Larry & Sergey's more idiotic ideas, while still letting crazy ones like "Let's build a webmail client!" or "Let's build a browser!" or "Let's buy a mobile phone OS!" go through.