law of the lost idea

Wednesday, September 1. 2004

The law of the lost idea states that

Any idea not put down on paper/harddisk within 10 minutes of it occuring will get lost.

Yesterday morning, I had thought of an ingenious workaround for a problem that we had been facing in one of our projects (while putting on my shoe). Now I have forgotten both, what the problem was and (quite obviously) what the workaround was.

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Some days you are lucky just to remember where your shoes are.

#1 jr (Homepage) on 2004-09-02 00:59 (Reply)

True True True... I have dedicated a mail box for idead like these. When ever i have an idea, i jot it down and then send it to the mail box...

try it out sometime.

#2 Teju on 2004-09-02 13:28 (Reply)

Nice idea teju. I am implementing it. Though I would raher prefer a wiki on which I can put my ideas in free flow.

#3 Raj Shekhar (Homepage) on 2004-09-03 12:15 (Reply)

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