Argh... so this morning I want to scream. I've been scoping out the integratron in Joshua Tree for months, planning to go check it out and write about it for Daily Mantra. So I mention it on b.la and blech, I find out the boingboing covered it early last week (I've stopped reading that site as it depresses me) and it was in the LAT not that long ago and shit - I f*n hate it when I've been thinking about something for a while and then, blam - it explodes onto the scene. So much for being tapped into the collective consciousness.
Then again, I could use that as a way to birth trends into the mainstream or not so mainstream. Or maybe I should use this as the impetus to NOT wait on any idea I have and EXECUTE it immediately. Damn that distraction for the past few months!
I want to be the one writing about the cool stuff and the scoops. I want to be the rock hunter.
But then, there are times I find out about cool stuff and specifically DON'T write about it. Because it's so neat that I DON'T want anyone to find out about it... yet.
Argh. Maybe this is just the motivation I need to write about the next big thing...
Blech.
Updated: AOL in Mountain View is hosting women's entrepreneur unconference. WTF? I'm so glad I spent freaking years in Silicon Valley running the Menttium break out sessions. Maybe I just suck, or maybe I'm just freaky years ahead of my time, I was evangelizing DHTML (what is now known as Web 2.0) in 2000 at AOL, thanks to my iamazing engineering team.
But really world, I'm about 6 years ahead of the trend here. Where's the money in that? Oh, right, I'm not in it for the money... I'm in it to ride the edge of the wave. Still...
OK, this is it. I'm intending an opportunity where I can execute on these innovative forward thinking ideas and actually EXECUTE! Grr.
you are not alone in having this situation. many has been the time where i have been marinating and developing an idea only to see it snatched out from elsewhere.
sometimes i think of this ralph waldo emerson quote when i am procrastinating on idea:
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty...Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another."
Posted by: hexodus | April 26, 2006 at 04:03 PM
I'm a Burning Man Ranger, and the Integratron is operated by two Rangers. We have our regional SoCal Ranger training sessions there. I love hanging out there.
Posted by: Kathryn | May 07, 2006 at 02:29 AM