Please 'Steal' My Ideas

Ideas are Worthless; Execution Matters

There's no point in executing a bad idea.

So, executing a poor idea is a massive waste of time.

Execution matters, but a great idea is just the beginning.

Ideas are cheap. I happen to be someone who has many of them, often. Not only can I never possibly execute them all, but there are many other people out there much better suited to deliver well on any of them. If you can deliver better than me on one, have at it! I'll move on to the next interesting one on my list.

Ideas do need protection at times, but the protection they need is from people who want to stop them. Protecting ideas from people who want to build, iterate, and execute them is a bit silly.

While the ideas here certainly occurred to me, and I wrote them up after some thought, I'm not sure I own them in any real sense. Any great idea is about observation, reading the signals around you, and pulling them together. In fact, if you're literally the only person who had a specific idea.....I'm sorry, but you may just be crazy. If it's truly a great idea, many people around the world will be reading and interpreting the same signals as me, in the same way.

I'll share some ideas that occur to me here. I do ask one thing: say hello and let me know what you're doing with the ideas here. My intent in sharing here is to connect and collaborate with like minded folks. Who knows, maybe I can layer on some advice or help out?