Idea Blog

Year's up. I think these are last and first posts of the year in sense, even tho they aren't crossing over quite right. But today we become the meta tail-eating snake, looping back around on ourselves. Today, the idea is to write ideas, publicly. The idea is this blog, for you, or us, or whatever.

I certainly can't do justice to all of our goals with this things and I can't explain all of the reason I think this is profoundly useful idea. But I'll go for hitting the highlights. The two main aspects to this thing are consistency and publicness. The idea of posting every day is terribly important to us and to the idea. It means that there is both something new for readers, but more importantly that there is a daily task. Even split it two, it is a thing in front of you for every day to make sure it gets done. Some of this will show up in Sean's idea today too I assume. The fact, specifically, that there is a trust to keeping the thing alive and timely. The challenge to you head on a daily basis is fantastically useful. And there is a place for it to go. You're spending our time with hopes and goals and thinking about how things, any thing, can be better. That is precious and we don't do enough of it in our daily lives.

The second big factor in my opinion is the publicness of it. This is itself for two reasons. First it gives the ideas a home, a reason, a place to be. It gives them a distinct life outside of your own head. And the second part is my favourite. This blog demands that you let go of our ownership of the ideas. I think we've consciously made it our goal to put out ideas so that they have a chance to happen, or to get other people thinking about the same issues and having their own ideas. I would love it if someone ran away with one of my ideas and made it happen, even made money on it. Initially we were calling this the Idea Garden, with the sense that we wanted to be planting seeds for ideas, just getting things going. Awful name, but the concept works.

So, I guess, we want you to have ideas too, with us. Or for us as the case may be. We want an end to intellectual tyranny when we're feeling too lofty about ourselves. We want thinking to happen everywhere and often and by anyone who is interested in doing it.

Thank you for reading, you ethereal blog-audience of no one, any one or any time. You're a big part of the point. It has been a wonderful year here (not so much other places, but here certainly). I only hope next year can be even half as enjoyable here. And I hope we hear from you.

Thanks,
Everybody