Steve's Notebook

Creativity and Life

Half-baked Ideas

Ideas are a dime a dozen.

An unexecuted idea is worthless.

A well-executed idea can make you rich.

Every time I get an idea, I write it down. I’ve done this for over 25 years and have collected hundreds of ideas.

In this blog, I’m going to write about all the ideas that I’m NOT going to execute. They are either too big for me, outside my realm of expertise, or they simply don’t stir the passion inside of me to work on them.

Some of these ideas will be great, some bad, and some may even be impossible. But they are all free for the taking. You don’t have to credit me for anything, because after all, unexecuted ideas are worthless. Once you execute an idea, it becomes yours.

Book Cover Recommendation Engine

Half-baked Ideas

There’s the cliché advice, “don’t judge a book by its cover.” While that is good advice, few people heed it. The fact is, most people will judge a book by its cover. If you are an author and want people to buy your book, you better put a good cover on it. Choosing a good […]

All-Female Taxi Service

Half-baked Ideas

A big concern among users of Uber, Lyft, and taxis in general is safety. Passengers have to trust a stranger to drive them to their destination. Some situations—particularly a single female passenger being picked up by a male stranger late at night—seem especially risky. This problem may be solved by an all-female taxi service. Female […]

Computing Power of the Masses

Half-baked Ideas

The universe is a massive, perhaps infinite, expanse and our entire galaxy is but a speck in a void sprinkled with thousands of galaxies. Even if you only consider our own galaxy, the Milky Way, our solar system is just one in an estimated 100,000,000,000 other solar systems in the galaxy. There are probably over […]

Multimedia eBooks

Half-baked Ideas

Judging from the information at ebooks.com, somewhere between 15% and 40% of all book sales are digital ebooks. We are clearly trending in the direction of fewer physical books and more digital ebooks. People are slowly changing their habits towards digital reading. Given the trend toward digital ebooks and the technological capabilities they make possible, […]

Wizards OS

Half-baked Ideas

Most of the world today use Microsoft Windows as their computer’s operating system (OS). Google Android is the most popular operating system for mobile devices. The operating system is the software that organizes and controls everything your computer or mobile device does. But do they have to be so boring? I propose “Wizards OS,” an […]

Real-time Audio Interpretation

Half-baked Ideas

We are headed toward a convergence of audio technology and artificial intelligence (AI). As podcasts, audio books, and voice-operated devices gain popularity, artificial intelligence is becoming faster and more accurate. Right now, we don’t really have technology for real-time audio interpretation. Live audio broadcasts cannot be censored in real-time because humans are not fast enough […]