I got an idea!

I got an idea. Although it's not really any usual for me to get an idea at an altitude of 37,000 feet, I'm glad I did during one of my boring flights. I don't really know what it's capable of. I don't really care even if it isn't worth anything. But I'm glad I have something to work on. I've always had this disturbing feel of not putting my coding instincts to the best use that I could rather. And it hits me worse everytime I read about some computer geek that crashed one of those toughest firewalls, or about the Silicon Valley tales of now successful ventures that started out of garages and dining rooms, doing what I think I could, that I never tried. The Social Network was the most recent blow on my self-esteem.

It's not anything about money. It's not about making a business out of it. I'm sure I'm not obsessed with joining the bandwagon of those accidental millionaires. It's just about doing something significant on my own, something phenomenal, so I don't have to live in all the guilt of not doing anything about what I actually could. I'm sure this idea is gonna serve this purpose of self-actualization. And I'm sure it should be worth all the making.

So, let's get to it.

In a world where everything is getting lean..

I was reading a mail from my business school yesterday. Nothing more than a convocation invite. I was glad they even thought of having one after 18 months of graduation. 18 months - you heard it right. As much weird as it was to have a graduation after 18 months, so much so was it to know I can't have my degree door-delivered. Doesn't it sound freakish paying your college half a million for a degree, when your college can't even FedEx it to you? Gosh. I rather love that McDonald-guy. He door-delivers every petty hundred-bucks-meal. With a smile on his face.

But why are things being made so complicated? Why do I have to fly hundreds of miles for a convocation to get my degree, where there is door-delivery easily around?! Or even better, why do we have degree certificates at all, when there is technology around to take them all digital and secure their integrity with something close to Verisign? Jeez.. am I the only person who thinks this is all a ridiculous waste of human energy?

Why on earth didn't I invent Facebook?

You think it's because I wasn't a super-smart nerd as Zuckerberg? Or you think it's because I wasn't at the Harvard? Honestly, I think it's none of these. First, you don't have to be super-smart to build what Facebook initially was. Putting it together is pretty goddamn simple. Second, Harvard had nothing to do with the making -- of the site or of the moronic mind that conceived it. If at all there was something, it only was the wide social-savvy user network Harvard had in place. So, the question goes again -- Why didn't I?!

I hate to get convinced with the common it-just-wasn't-meant-to-happen-that-way. And I'm hoping to write back on figuring out more convincing answers. Even if it's just for the heck of it.

(It's Sunday -- I know I got time to kill on worthless pursuits. Lol)