Product Review Board

My engineering brain is constantly searching for new tasks, products, ideas, inventions, improvements, algorithms, and everything in between. As I wrote before, I set myself the goal of coming up with a new idea or invention every single week. By now, I have accumulated a truly ridiculous number of them.

I generously share them with you, my dear readers (assuming there actually are any-if there are, please hit the like button below this post). Some of these ideas feel incredibly promising, groundbreaking, even genius-level. Of course, they usually are not. But how can I, blinded by my own greatness, spot nonsense for what it is?

Today I came up with the idea of a trusted expert product review board made up of specialists I personally trust. That could include colleagues, friends, or simply people I know. In one shared space, confidential ideas and project concepts would be posted, and everyone inside this trusted environment would participate under an NDA-a non-disclosure and non-use agreement covering everything published there.

The board’s job would be to evaluate projects and ideas for feasibility, potential, and originality. The goal is to help the author—sometimes by bringing them back down to earth when necessary, and other times by doing the exact opposite: lifting them up and helping them move forward. The evaluation mechanics could be completely traditional-surveys, polls, likes and reactions, verbal feedback, or subjective expert opinions. Or even something more dramatic, startup-show style, where people offer to invest in and join the project. The important part is a trusted environment, a shared legal framework, and a circle of trusted participants.

What do you think-like or dislike?