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Could I arrange to have somebody come and kick me in the shin every time a “brilliant idea” interrupts me from doing the previous “brilliant idea”?

I’m sure a queue or rota could be arranged.

I’m sure a queue or rota could be arranged.

No problem. But would you like it preemptive or cooperative?

I’m likely to be uncooperative at the time.

If brilliant ideas are the problem, you could leave the thinking to me.

“Brilliant” is, of course, relative, rhetorical, and probably satirical.

Could I arrange to have somebody come and kick me in the shin every time a “brilliant idea” interrupts me from doing the previous “brilliant idea”?

Most of us are full of ideas, possibly brilliant.
Some of you are full of talent (I just dropped out of the group there)

They do say, if you want something doing well ask a busy man. Do note that asking yourself does count and voices in your head is normal.

I’m currently debugging the Wimp because…
I implemented a ‘middle’ iconbar position because…
I wrote a Media Player control to improve the ambience while…
Writing the InAWindow module to improve the four run-in-a-taskwindow filetypes used to test…
The Channels module as it reaches 32bit conversion, which interrupted…
The Unicode-aware OS_ReadLine(32) ‘character mode’ for improved password and filtering conceived while…
Updating VectorExtend to work with RO5 & RO6 because it would make it easier for…
The UnicodeSupport module which returned to the top of the list, supplanting…
OS_GSTrans fix for asymmetric API which delayed the completion of…
The VduTabs module needed to reimplement *Cat and *Ex with Unicode which was more important than…
Finishing an RO5 compatible Monitor module to (amongst other things) document the gamma curve in order to aid…
Extending my SuperSample90 customisation to SuperSample45 for improved font rendering…
I was probably doing something before that, but I’ve forgotten.

Not included: The other interruptions I actually completed.

Most of us are full of ideas, possibly brilliant.

But would we recognise a potentially brilliant idea?

I could have invented Instagram. No, seriously. Way back when I had a brief play with the concept of tagging and sharing photos. They were in the order of one megapixel in those days (plus a lot of dialup). Photos would have been 16:9, not square, as I’m an advocate for widescreen. And there would have been no white borders because that’s either “annoyingly retro” or “your printer is too cheap to make it to the edge of the paper” depending on how I feel…
But the idea was ultimately never followed through in those pre-Facebook days as “why?”. I guess I neither understood nor predicted the American mindset of sharing photos of every single lunch that have ever eaten. I still don’t understand. I’m actually somewhat amazed that people bother to read the rubbish I call a blog…

So, the question stands. If we had a great idea, would we necessarily recognise it as such?

If we had a great idea, would we necessarily recognise it as such?

To avoid this scenario, I write everything.

This strategy is not currently working for me.

I could have invented Instagram.

I could have invented the laser printer. Except that lots of other people invented it at much the same time, because the necessary underlying technology had just become available and given that, the idea was pretty bloody obvious. And I didn’t have a multi-million tech company’s patenting department to hand.

I was probably doing something before that, but I’ve forgotten.

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