a disclaimer

this blog will be flawed in an attribution sense, in that my ideas come from all sorts of places, and some of them ought to be attributed to certain people or groups whose names i have forgotten.

many of my analogies and idea-tools are substantially modified or remixed or born from first principles in my head, and these i feel pretty good about sharing. many others will have been lifted from other places and people, or will have evolved in similar enough environments that they are convergent with other ideas elsewhere.

i have long worried about the validity of sharing my ideas given the risk of overlap with other thinkers. however, in the spirit of DIYdeaing, i’m going to accept that even though many other people have DIY’d their own tables or tortilla presses, it’s worthwhile for me to try building my own as well. of course, ideas are more promiscuous and copy-able than physical objects, but at the very least i’ll be practicing my own thinking.

now to the point of this disclaimer: i hope that readers will forgive me when they see unattributed ideas that sound much like things that appear elsewhere, and i invite you to make suggestions for folks i should read / attribute / etc.