Ideas are flowing

I am and always will be a per­son ruled by my ideas. Hav­ing all these days to myself gives me lots of time to doo­dle and jot down ideas. I’m car­ry­ing a spi­ral note­book which I’m using for those ideas. Right now I’m holed up in a diner down the street from Wrigley field and right next to improvOlympic.

I’ve made a video I was going to use for my day 3 video jour­nal, but when I put it on the com­puter I dis­cov­ered that it had some bad color issues and streaks which crossed the video. Looks like my lit­tle Kodak is on its way out, hope­fully it lasts through the trip! Regard­less it means that I’ll be need­ing a new dig­i­tal cam­era in the next few days.

Today I was read­ing Paul Stamatiou’s blog, who is in turn high­light­ing points from David Kirkpatrick’s inter­view with var­i­ous tech­nol­ogy big wigs, one of which is Jonathan Schwartz who is the big wig of Sun Microsys­tems. He notes that the tele­phone has taken the most unex­pected turn for him, dis­cussing the ram­pant take over of mobile phones.

In that moment I had a flash of the office of tomor­row where office phones are a thing of the past. We can’t be that far from multi-line cell phones. Sure you can flash over and make a three way call from your phone, but imag­ine the day when you can take a call from Jan in account­ing, and in turn place a call to your sup­plier in Wyoming. The day isn’t far, and when it reaches that point we’ll begin see­ing offices drop the in house phone lines instead for mas­sive cel­lu­lar plans for all of their employees.

I also love Jonathan’s answer to the ques­tion of what really dri­ves innovation:

Courage. Courage to chal­lenge con­ven­tional wis­dom, to wholly com­mit to an idea or ideal, to lead and inspire those around you, whether they’re col­lab­o­ra­tors or customers.