Your idea, My idea, why’s everyone so paranoid?
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by Nic on 06-08-2007
Tagged Under : Alexander Graham Bell, Henry Ford, ideas, Innovation, invention, theft
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I read Tyler’s post the other day and thought nothing of it. Then I noticed that Sessa and de Waal had blogged about it as well as others.
I have a bit of a different approach to this concept than many of the bloggers have already taken. I say tough shit. I say what makes you think I want YOUR idea? I say, what makes you think that I didn’t think of it first and that’s why I got it out quicker? I say, I must be better, stronger, faster, smarter than you if you had the idea and lost out. That’s what I say.
Mike commented on Tyler’s post asking him to name names and brand the ones that stole. Let me tell you that does no good. Mike is right though, the ones that “stole” ideas will meet their fate. The world is made round to go round and comes round fast.
But I must reiterate, what makes you think that anyone wants to steal your ideas?
My point? Your ideas are not original. Nothing that you or I can come up with will be a truly original thought. Those thoughts are all long gone. Show me an idea and I can show you another who has thought it. Give me an invention and I’ll show you one just like it. Nothing is yours.
My rebuttle question is this: Where did YOU get your idea from? Who are YOU ripping off? How self-righteous of us all to think that we thought the ideas and that others want to steal them? Who do we think we are?
What a load of rubbish. I have not claimed to have an original idea. I am a man who implements not necessarily innovates. I cannot claim that at the ‘ripe’ old age of a whopping 23 that I have come up with anything great, wondrous or truly innovative or original. If you think you are that great, prove it. Don’t complain that someone ripped off your idea.
I bet that Alexander Bell wasn’t the first to create the telephone and Henry Ford wasn’t the first to create the motorcar. They were simply the first to release their inventions and receive the accolades. This is the way of the world, this has always been the way of the world. Simple.
Nic - couldn’t agree more. I actually went off on a bit of a tangent from the point of Tyler’s original post, to make a similar point to what you have just made - that ideas are not original, and it’s more the execution of the idea than the idea itself that gets rewarded. I think where Tyler got shafted (and I’m guessing this from the content and tone of his post, so I could be completely off base) is that he shared and collaborated with certain people and they took the ideas that came out of that and implemented them without a tip of the hat back to him. As I say, that’s the way that I read it and I could be wrong. I’m all for collaboration and sharing of ideas - the more companies that are out there pushing their clients into “new media” the better for all of us. But give credit where credit is due.
An idea to implement something somewhere, is still an idea. It could also be a great idea if it improves on current processes. If someone nicks it before you deliver, it = unethical. Remember my viewpoint stems from an internal situation. People are quick to delegate responsibilities, but slack when it comes to delegating credit.
Stefano: Good point, very true.
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