Comment on Open Thread, April 1-15, 2012

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:27:50 GMT

If you've got some brilliant idea, why don't you implement it? Complaining that someone else should do it could makes things worse:

Humans tend to be especially interested in implementing ideas they have themselves. If you tell someone else about your idea, there's no chance of them having independently and getting excited about working on it. If you're not actually going to do anything, you might want to just share the groundwork for the idea without mentioning the idea itself, or deliberately describe the idea in crippled form. That way, someone else can come along, have the idea, and get inspired to work on it.

Discuss