I am a big fan of DIY whether it comes to software or buildings. The ability to learn by doing rather than the tedious environment of a lecture theater, or the dry text of a technical book; is something I deeply appreciate.

I have spent the past 15 months redecorating the flat, in the manner only I seem to manage which is somewhat overboard with big plans and big ideas and little appreciation for the time it takes. A trait I have spent several years reigning in.

Why try and muffle this part of me? It is certainly not by choice alone. Dreamers that do are what makes the world great, the people behind every invention, the activists, the progressive liberalists, the spread of atheism. People that will not and can not stay down, refusing to bow heads to religious dogma or bureaucratic unimaginative morons who run our daily lives.

However big ideas are time consuming, they by definition alone are poorly planned and difficult to implement. Agile had a solution, split down this big idea into smaller more manageable ones. The problem is the big idea gets lost in all the detail, the vision goes out the window and the idea is no longer fun for the idealist but fun for the bureaucratic.

Is there a real happy medium? probably not, the 2 sides of humanity will constantly pull and push at each other, even within ourselves, repressing and ridiculing every idea, yawning and rebelling against every decision.

The only antidote is confidence, however that comes with its own problems, bad decisions can lead to the implementation of bad ideas, and bad ideas are brought forward by bad decisions. This is the supposed reason for elections and not referendum, but that stems from the bad idea that people generally make bad decisions.

I have no solution just a dilemma put to the world.