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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:51:54PM -0400, mjd-perl-pm@plover.com wrote:
> 2. Whenever I have what seems like a good idea, I put it in a file.
> I've been doing this for about four years, and the file has about
> 250 good ideas in it. Usually I guard these good ideas jealously.
> But it takes time to develop good ideas, and I can't possibly
> develop sevnty five good ideas in a year; I'm lucky to develop ten.
> So I thought I might start letting these out into the big world.
>
> In the absence of any better ideas for what to do with this file, I
> thought maybe I'd start a mailing list, and each time an
> undeveloped idea had its 4th birthday, I'd send it to the mailing
> list. Of course, if there's already a mailing list of smart people
> looking for good ideas to develop, I'd rather send them there. Any
> suggestions?
Sounds like a cool idea.
Putting them on a web page might increase awareness: people can
stumble on them via google or other links rather than having to be on
the list.
If you have that many more good ideas than you can act on and you
still want to hold onto them for four years at a time, it sounds like
you aren't cleaning house very well and are thus depriving the world
of those good ideas. I'd encourage you to release them a bit sooner.
Perhaps you could merely keep a queue that represents, say, a year or
two of things you might really be able to implement, and anything
that's not at least as good as what's in the queue would be released
much sooner, say after a few months of cogitation to confirm that it
doesn't deserve to be in the higher priority queue.
--
Jeff
Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
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