How do you consciously prepare for a 15 hour and 20 minute flight? I’d like to dedicate this wall posts to two trains of thought which I have been having, the idea of keeping/having ideas on a shelf, and how many hours I have been on a flight in the past week. Let me just list out my travels out in approximation of flight hours and all that stuff first before I get to ideas and projects on a shelf.
Date Current City Destination # of Hours Time Zone Change
May 11, 2011 Atlanta, Georgia Barcelona, Spain 8 Add 6 Hours
May 16, 2011 Barcelona, Spain London, UK 2 Subtract 1 Hour
May 19, 2011 London, UK Atlanta, Georgia 9 Subtract 5 Hours
May 20, 2011 Atlanta, Georgia Los Angeles, Cali 5 Subtract 3 Hours
May 20, 2011 Los Angeles, Cali Sydney, Australia 15 Add 17 Hours
By the time I land in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday, at 6am, I will have flown for a total of approximately 40 hours. This is within the time frame of 11 days. That is only 15% of my time on planes. Well, dam, that’s actually quite a lot of time. I don’t really want to calculate how much of that time I have been awake or asleep but oh well. That’s the first part of the story. The second more interesting part is having ideas in the shelf.
Whether you have a physical or digital shelf, or a shelf in your mind, doesn’t really matter, although I think having an actual shelf makes this thought cooler. This idea was brought up in the FOWD conference in London, about keeping your ideas in a shelf. Twitter came out of this very concept, as the person who originally had the idea, came up with it in like 2002, and then left it in his ‘shelf’ for a few years before going back to it when the start up he was working for was essentially going down the drain.
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