It may not be a lightbulb, but it’s still pretty big.
May 8, 2008 on 12:07 pm
Filed Under:SEO
I am, by no means, Thomas Edison, but after the last month or so, I can certainly understand a bit about how he felt.
I’ve written in here about my ideas, the tools that I’ve decided to build to make life easier for SEO/SEMs, website owners, everyone actually, and I’ve been going great guns ‘o glory on them for quite some time now.
I can remember the exact second I thought of them, and how I began working on them the next day, and in those moments I truly knew what it felt like to be an “inventor”. The thing is, whenever I pictured Old Tommy Alva and his cool stuff churning out of Menlo Park, I never actually thought about how difficult it was for him to build some of these things. The trial, the ERRORs, and the spirit it takes to pick your chin back up and tackle the damn thing again.
It is a trying process, to say the least. I give thanks to those that are helping me test it, and for their invaluable feedback, but some of the headaches I’m experiencing on things that were just. so. simple. in my head are giving me… well… headaches.
One of the things that keep you going though, is that spirit that I mentioned above. Whenever my energy towards these new “inventions” starts to flag and wane, I am further bolstered on by thoughts of how to make them bigger and even better, how to take things even more beyond the limits of conventional thought. In short, dreaming again.
But dreams are good, they’re more than good, they’re great. They keep us going through the humdrum of actually “working” and, in the end, make “work” not feel so much like work.