why won’t people listen??
Okay, now that my childish rant is done…
I’m sure I’ve gone on more than a few tangents about how some of the really good, lightning-strike brain moments in my past have yielded excellent, viable ideas that, having been shared with industry gatekeepers, were rejected - only to show, a year or so later, to not only be great ideas, but industry changing!
Example:
I recall a scorching summer afternoon in 2006 at Pershing Sq. Cafe where I identified a problem and a solution. The idea was challenged. I responded. It was dismissed. Some valiant effort was made by a colleague to implement this idea, to no avail. At the time (as you may have read), I was suffering some crises of a professional nature that sapped a lot of energy out of me, and so I was unable to invest any effort into the idea.
As it turns out, everybody loves my idea. They can’t wait for it to be a reality! People predicted a lot of resistance on the part of big players like Facebook, MySpace, Google… why would they participate? Why would they let it happen and exist? I explained why it’s good for all of them, but nobody believed me. And now this. If things had gotten moving when I thought of this, I’d be poised in a great position to run the market on this. But alas, I’m just another one of the whining “I coulda done that” kids.