Neven Mrgan:

Simple ideas like this will naturally occur to many people. A small percentage of those will have the ability to execute on them. A small percentage of those will then actually do so. And an even smaller group will combine it with an otherwise interesting product, thus making it into something.

One single paragraph above eloquently argue about the value of idea, which is null, unless executed. Lukas Mathis chime in with a well-put comment around this topic:

People often assume that ideas are where value is created. In reality, ideas (even non-simple ones) are plentiful, easy, and often generated by more than one person at the same time. Ideas are essentially worthless. Value is only created when people actually make stuff.

See also Everything is a Remix a web video series by Kirby Ferguson, just in case you aren’t already know about it.

There’s a lot more to be considered other than just the initial ideas, so make stuff happens. Great stuff.

startupquote:

It’s not we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

– Edwin Land

To have such a hallowed idea, an idea that I didn’t even realize I had because I simply thought it was true, to have such a thing so completely re-organized, redistributed, a whole new sense of it forged was invigorating, intoxicating, making me delirious with possibility.

Patrick King on his new site fixing the hobo suit:

We see ideas spring up as a result to broad circumstance, which are then visually interpreted ad hoc. That initial communication is done both with and without design—as some designers, naturally curious about new ideas, are involved in the movements.

But then, it turns into a chicken-or-the-egg conversation.

Does design only give a concrete way to see at a pre-formed idea, or is it also the inverse: that design helps to form the structure of the idea, because now it can be seen

I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time. That’s the idea their thoughts will drift toward when they’re allowed to drift freely. And this idea will thus tend to get all the benefit of that type of thinking, while others are starved of it. Which means it’s a disaster to let the wrong idea become the top one in your mind.

Good read.

drbarnard:

Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about intellectual property and the underlying moral and legal issues. In blogging and tweeting about these thoughts, I’ve tended to use the word “borrow”, but at times I’ve used the word “steal” to assert the implicit moral judgment.

As I…