Ideas are a dangerous drug

In the context of that last bit about Korea it was interesting to read this article in the New Statesman -

"... you cannot view finance in isolation. It tends to be seen in a context of bursts of innovation taking place within an ecology within one kind of system. The most innovative environments are places where the ecology is in some kind of alignment. You see it in Israel, Ireland and, to a lesser extent, in Korea. Finance is not just poured in out of context.

Entrepreneurship has much less to do with an aspiration for being in a corporate environment and much more to do with that sense of excitement and wonder that young people have. They are full of ideas and they want to find a workplace in which they can implement those ideas."

Thought provoking stuff. If music is the food of the soul then ideas are the food of entrepreneurship. Of course too much food can make you unhealthy and good ideas on their own are useless. Its all about execution after all, but idea generation is certainly what gives me the buzz. I can literally get hooked on concept development and there's definitely some kind of addictive chemical reaction going on in my head when those light bulbs start sparking. Its a drug, and a dangerous drug for an entrepeneur.