Over the last couple of weeks it has definitely been a case of ‘don’t look down.’ It’s been great to have some time to play around with some prototyping, but it has also been interspersed with moment of anxiety about what I’ve done.
That said, I feel like I am moving forward and making progress. I’ve met with some great people and got a couple of interesting projects underway that are stretching me technically and giving me a chance to learn new things. It’s not clear if either have any commercial viability, but at the moment that is less important for me than to be getting stimulated in technically new directions, and also seeing how other people think about ideas and ways to work.
One thing I have learned this week is to be super-clear on why an idea is worth doing, if it is to be something that has a chance of being commercially successful. Talking some of my ideas through with people I respect I have had some great feedback:
– Who would want or use this?
– Why would they want it?
And if there isn’t a clear, one sentence answer, the chances are the concept is too woolly.