RPF, ideas

January 6^th, 2012

            When I first came up with this RPF idea I thought it was going to be fairly easy to come up a random thought once a week that I could expound upon for at least three paragraphs and make it a least a little bit interesting and entertaining. I believe that I have been able to do that over the past ten weeks (I believe this is RPF #10…), though I am not so sure my readers would agree with me. However week after week I have constantly struggled to think of a topic to write about in my weekly RPF, now I believe some of those struggles have to do with the fact that I do not want to write about Honduras or the Peace Corps experience. However, seeing as my life is Honduras and the Peace Corps experience it does make it a little hard to let my mind wander and think of completely random thoughts, especially during this weird time for PCH.

This week I have really tried to put in a lot of time trying to come up with a good subject for my RPF this week I even listen to a guy named Kevin Wildes who was on a podcast with my favorite sports writer Bill Simmons in a bit that they call “Half Baked Ideas.” In this bit, Mr. Wildes simply shares different ideas that he has come up with, now these ideas are not fully thought out and that is exactly why they are called Half Baked Ideas (of course there is another reference involved there as well but we are a child friendly site...). For example, one of his ideas was that he thinks there should be more eve’s like Labor Day Eve or Valentine’s Day Eve. While all of his ideas are not spectacular, him sharing his ideas and listening to the ideas evolve is very interesting and also highly entertaining. Idea generation, and more so the evolution of the idea has always been extremely interesting to me because I like to see where an idea begins and also where it ends up, I guess I just like the creative process.   

            I have always been trying to think of good ideas or at least entertaining ideas and during college I even had a list next to my bed on which I would put my great ideas whenever they would come to me whether it was right before falling asleep or in the shower, etc. I don’t remember having too many great or world changing ideas on that sheet of paper that I have since lost unfortunately, though I do think my compliment website idea could at least help some people out in this world. I do think that many of the best ideas come from bouncing ideas off of other people and letting them evolve through the discussion. So with that idea in mind here is my own half-baked idea, I think there should be some place online where people can get together and bounce their ideas off of each other kind of like an online think tank. It would be like an online TED conference only with less great ideas mostly since it would be open to all of the internet. So using the new crowd sourcing techniques I think this website could potentially come up with some good ideas while of course it would no doubt come up with some terrible ideas as well as some truly terrible comments. But let’s be honest the best part about many online websites are the terrible comments so at least it would have that going for it if nothing else. Wow that idea was probably less than half-baked I realize now but maybe during my time in PCC I can spend more time and come up with some more (and better) half-baked ideas to share with everyone here.