Just 10 ideas

You can’t trust the old style of thinking anymore. You have to come up with a new way of thinking. A new way of having ideas. A new way of interacting with the outside universe.”
James Altucher.

I’m currently reading James Altucher’s latest book. It has nothing to do with OSS but it has a myriad of ideas to ponder for OSS exponents.

He speaks about ideas being currency in the modern world and hence the need to be an idea machine.

l love the concept. It’s part of the reason why l founded PAOSS – to force me to generate more ideas about OSS and share them with the world (or at least the sub-set of the global population that reads PAOSS).

There’s just one problem. James suggests coming up with 10 ideas every day. Sounds like a challenge worth taking on though.

I’d love to get your assistance on this one, to help provide a little push to get the PAOSS idea machine moving faster.

  1. What are the 10 biggest problems you face or our industry faces?
  2. What are the 10 things that you’d like to get better at?
  3. Our thinking is often constrained by the complexity of the challenges, so which 10 complexities would you like to snap your fingers and remove?
  4. Which 10 nascent technologies will impact OSS in the future?
  5. Which 10 technologies will be dead in 5 years or less?
  6. Which 10 technologies do we need that haven’t been invented yet?
  7. Name 10 ways in which machine learning will impact our industry
  8. Which 10 ways can we use to overcome the OSS skills shortage?
  9. Which 10 laws of nature don’t apply to OSS?
  10. Which 10 analogies from other industries can you apply to OSS?

Perhaps you’d like to throw some other lists of 10 at the PAOSS community and I for philosophising over?

Hmmm. I already have another 10 in a list so let’s continue with this tomorrow.

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