Last updated on January 16th, 2021 at 12:16 pm
So I just saw The Social Network. Holy crap. What a great movie. It stirred… something in me. I don’t quite know what it is, but I like it. As soon as I got back home, I started working on some things. The mockups I’ve had sitting all over the place. The random ideas strewn about my backpack not really doing much of anything. I’m working on putting them all where they belong—in one coherent system that betters the world around me and the people I deal with.
Earphones aren’t working properly—annoying. This might end up being a part stream-of-consciousness post.
So anyway, if you haven’t seen this movie, I think it’s prudent that you do. Everyone’s going to come out with an opinion. Eisenberg’s portrayal of Zuckerberg is that of a socially inept genius—but oh man, what a genius. The one-liners. The vision. He was like a well-oiled engine moving forward to effect change. Seeing the whole story unfold was… just something else altogether. So here I am no longer wondering what exactly the next big idea that I could create IS, but rather how I can combine all the different things I do into one larger behemoth of a tool/magazine/whatever it’s going to look like.
I’m a huge fan of creating new ideas—taking many different elements and combining them into something ultimately more useable by people whose lives could be better for them. You see the effects of this in daily life. Social networking has made people more aware of what’s going on in the broader world around them. You wouldn’t have the Magic Bullet if there weren’t a need identified for people to have quicker ways to produce and consume foods that would previously take far greater lengths of time to prepare.
It’s all about riding the wave of change or getting drowned by it. I’ve gotta learn how to surf. Let’s take a look at the madness I’m up to at the moment:
So from left to right, roughly, we have:
- the unsorted stuff
- a pile (face-down) of the stuff I have to do for the 9-to-5
- a soon-to-be-retired notebook with a couple of fun saying on it
- my BlackBerry Bold 9700 (kinda mad that I got it in early September and the 9780’s around the corner, but whatever)
- my iPod Touch 4th Gen (used for gaming and music more than anything else, though I’m starting to explore what other possibilities I might not have considered for future projects)
- pens and pencils
- MacBook Pro
- my inspiration file
- note-taking paper
- a pile of things to draw
- the more immediate to-do’s
I’m trying to take collections of things like these and make them into something. Something I can use to improve life for others. To make an impact. I don’t know what it looks like yet, but I’m not going to let these ideas just die off.
Have a good night, y’all—let the search for the great idea commence!!!
