[extropy-chat] Some ideas... dumped

[Kevin Freels]

Whatever you do, if you have a good idea, follow up on it, or you will be
kicking yourself in the arse the rest of your life. I designed a device in
1996 where a computer touch screen could be mounted to a headstone and a
person could leave messages for loved ones (or hated ones). It was all on
papaer,. but I never built it. I lacked the funds, and many of t he
technologies needed such as MPEG video just were in their infancy. SO I just
sat on it. Just last month, someone patented one. My family won;t let it go
since I used to talk about it all the time. Now every time I show up at a
family function, they give me a hard time about it.

If you think you have something worth doing, and someone else isn;t doing
it, you probably have something. Don't sit on it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Emlyn" <emlynoregan at gmail.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Some ideas... dumped


> I think there are a million things you could build right now and that
> people would find useful, and some relatively large subset of these
> would be commercialisable. The 'net, for instance, is still a fabulous
> rambling mess of stuff where everything that is hard to do or hard to
> understand or hard to use for people can be seen as an opportunity.
>
> You can see my recent ideas in my blog, poorly expressed as they are
> (mostly I have to squeeze them out of my head into the blog so they
> quit bugging me and I can think about something else).
>
> btw, it is also my contention that most ideas for doing things can be
> safely blurted out in public fora / blogs. Any ideas worth pursuing
> take enough work that people wont normally steal them, in fact they
> think the idea is crap (I can't see that...) until it is made
> concrete. Ideas aren't something people want to grab, you usually have
> to ram them down people's throats.
>
> Emlyn
>
> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:03:37 -0400, Brian Lee <brian_a_lee at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> > Of course, the vision must be of something sound. Right now, I just have
the
> > procedural/management/organization vision, I'm lacking the idea for the
> > successful software and/or business. That's the tough part :/
> >
> > Right now, it's tread water doing traditional software architecture in a
> > large corp (think layers of RUP and "gates" and documentation, etc)
until I
> > have something that I can start on my own (or with another core group).
> >
> > BAL
> >
> > >From: Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net>
> > >To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> > >Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Some ideas... dumped
> > >Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:25:34 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >
> > >
> > >--- Brian Lee <brian_a_lee at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Of course, it's virtually impossible to find a small
> > > > team of mad genius
> > > > coders with a unified vision so I'm still waiting :/
> > >
> > >Depends on the vision.  Out of curiosity, what's
> > >yours?
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>
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