Nov 22, 2012

IOII: The Institute of Interesting Ideas


"Maybe a thought is like a virus, you know, it can kill all the healthy thoughts and just take over. That would be serious."

- Mark Hunter in Pump Up the Volume (1990) 

Ideas, in my experience, are a bit the same. You can cling to them without fully testing them, a bit like the dream of owning a Lamborghini, until you realise it won't fit your family of four. 

A while ago I read Scott Belsky's book Making Ideas Happen. It's a good read - neatly summarised here - but on finishing it I didn't manage to start progressing the endless stream of ideas bouncing around in my head. 

This blog is in part a response to both those points. 
This blog is in part a whiteboard to capture ideas as they come along. 
Maybe it'll prompt me to organise, assess, expand and progress them. 
Hopefully it'll be a public forum that'll hold me accountable for converting more ideas into actual things. 
Ideally it'll turn me into doer of remarkable things, and the place I live a whole lot better. 

At the very least I'll be blogging again.

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