Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com ]

16/07/08 From the notebook: Ideas

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES - I’ve been collecting snippets from around the web in my Google Notebook. Here’s todays snippet - I forgot to save the authors link or name.

“Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. Does everyone immediately tell you your idea is great? Run away from it. If the idea is that obvious, the market will be filled with competitors, and you’ll find yourself scrambling.”

This harps back to my Alpha Inspiration.

Ideas are very risky assets. [...] Your real worth is something that no-one on earth has the technology to steal yet. It is hardware. It is moulded by all your years of experiences. It is information, yes. But it is encoded in the inner wirings of the enormous, continuously changing machine that is your brain. The real worth lies in the hardware that generates great ideas.

• Thanks to Ana Nelson for helping me out with some subversion stuff this morning. The question was… “how do you look after different config settings for different boxes when using SVN”
• I did my first podcast this week. I interviewed cerebral palsy adventurer Julie McElroy who’s been in a BBC documentary. I’m happy with it, but glad of any interview tips to improve.
• Decisions for Heroes has got a 3 letter domain d4h.org which I’m delighted about. We’ve now got 22 teams signed up and some interesting collaboration work in emergency telecoms response.

Out.

-Robin

(Image Credit: Smoke hangs in the air and crowds disperse after the 4th of July Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular. By Author.)

Tags: alpha inspiration, d4h, decisions for heroes, Ideas, notebook, podcast, quotes

2 Comments

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16/07/08 danger

Good work on the the 3 letter domain - i was under the impression that all 3 letter combinations were used up a few years ago!

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16/07/08 Robin Blandford

I know :-) deadly huh! I guess all the .com’s might be gone.

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