[Robotgroup] A robotgroup challange

[brooksdesign]

OK, maybe I need to reword this challange....The challange being contribute some of your brainstorm/get rich quick delusion/solution to whatever world social problem that sparked your idea.....but since you ARE too busy to get around to doing anything with it.....post it, with any additional research, to our not-for-profit idea forum. If someone wants to take the time and money and do something with it, great. If it works and makes our world better and maybe you get some recognition or not, its better than keeping good ideas locked in a box where they can't do any good,(plus you don't have to take as much heat if it goes south).
-brooks

-----Original Message-----
>From: Andre Lamothe <ceo at nurve.net>
>Sent: May 20, 2008 9:28 PM
>To: The Robot Group Mailing List <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] A robotgroup challange
>
>It's tough, I did contracting from my teens to 20's then started my first 
>company at about 23 making games. At the end of the day, its definitely less 
>stress working for the man, but then again you have to relegate yourself to 
>"this is it" plus dealing with the politics. Contracting can be very 
>lucrative if you get on a roll and pick the right thing, but dealing with 
>customers is a real pain and they NEVER understand what it is they are 
>asking for, so its a different kind of  "working for the man". And of course 
>the top level of stress is running a business that develops products and 
>sells them. This I recommend to no one unless you are willing to sacrifice 
>absolutely everything. But, if you are successful, you can do anything you 
>want and experience things very few can. However, if something goes wrong, 
>it goes wrong hard.
>
>These days though with the economy the way it is, in my opinion, I think 
>everyone needs at least a day job, a consulting gig, and to be trying to 
>develop a small business on the side -- basically an "income mix". In 
>reference to the comment about "having a life", I agree theoretically, but 
>its not practical anymore I don't think. The majority of this country is 
>holding on by their fingertips and we all need to just do more, work more, 
>and really bare down and work together so we have an excess of money, time, 
>resources. The party is over, and the sooner we as a country realize we have 
>lost our competitive edge in many areas YEARS ago and we all start kicking 
>butt again, I think as a whole we can make the words "United States of 
>America" respected rather than laughed at or hated as it is by 99% of the 
>world. If you do any traveling to europe for example, or just do business 
>globally, NO ONE likes us :( And they have good reason. All you have to do 
>is turn on the TV and when I see how the rest of the world lives, I just go 
>back to work since I never want to be in a situation like.
>
>So, I think David, the failure you are having is really a success since you 
>are mapping the envelope of what you really need to do, the more you do 
>that, the better you can make use of your time. And that's the key, work 
>smart. I think all of us would love to do X, and build Y. But, these days, I 
>like to use the word "Reverse brainstorm", that is look for problems and 
>develop solutions. The days of making things we love to make are over (at 
>least for a while), we have to indentify problem areas and go work on them. 
>Hopefully, those areas are still things you like to do.
>
>Andre'
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "TomD" <TomD at hyperweb.com>
>To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 7:55 PM
>Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] A robotgroup challange
>
>
>been there, done that.
>
>Sometimes , well lots of times, you walk on the proposal/bid.
>If they act cheap or have unrealistic expectations at the start
>and you cant correct that, then let them be someone else's problem.
>
>That's why I work for Dell now :)
>not so much free time, but I know when it's going to be.
>The money's about the same as a good year contracting,
>the stress, so much lower.
>
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