nuts and bolts
I have many ideas some of which I think about a lot to fix details about the ideas down to the nth degree. Most of the time they are ideas about doing something or building something. Things like:
- open a table tennis center
- do an EV conversion
- business to convert shipping containers into low cost housing units
So when I think about these ideas I go to the next layer of detail of how to do it or what would be the first thing to do, then I go to the next layer, and then the next. I create spreadsheets, business plans, research to the point of not just web surfing but also calling industry experts who have their phone number published on-line.
I'm not big on implementation, however, for most of my ideas cost time or money I don't have.
3 comments:
You have too much spare time on your hands Phil.
I don't think the table tennis centre would work over here. Its not that popular.
I don't know what an EV conversion is.
The shipping container idea wouldn't work here, its way too hot. Unless you installed air conditioners and then it would cost too much to live in one.
I've become a dream squasher.
That just reminded me.....my father worked in an aboriginal reservation, building cheap brick houses. They (aboriginals) hated the windows (no air circulation) and would punch them out. Eventually the builders replaced the windows with perspex so that they could be pushed back into place easily.
They rarely spent time inside the houses. The brick homes were too hot in summer and too cold in winter. So they prefered to sit outside in the shade and do their cooking over an open fire. The whole free housing thing bothered my father alot.
I don't think you can blame the aboriginals in this situation though. The powers-that-be decided what they would get and there seemed to be no consultation with the aboriginals as to what they actually wanted or needed.
I have my doubts as to whether or not the table tennis center would work here also - I know that some people have these tables in their basements or garages, but how often do they get used? My first step in such a business would be to hire a polling company to call or email 1000 people in the neighbourhood within which I would build the center and survey them.
An EV conversion is an electric vehicule conversion where you take a ICE car and turn it into an electric car by removing the engine, adding an electric motor, and adding between eight and sixteen deep cycle batteries.
The principle of the shipping container job is that all of the work within the container could be done within a large warehouse, and then the finished container could be shipped on-site where it is simply stacked along with other similar containers and then a few final connections are made. Yes, I agree that where you are it would be too hot, but here, half the year it is cold, and not the same cold that you know.
You aren't a dream squasher, you are an idea critic. I welcome criticism, it helps to bring reality to me ideas.
i prefer ping pong
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