At the risk you of you never seeing this ... Put your email in your profile! The thing about ideas is that you can't really test how they will perform in the

At the risk you of you never seeing this ... Put your email in your profile! The thing about ideas is that you can't really test how they will perform in the reality because they are not _real_. For example as a programmer I have tons of ideas about how to execute a given task. In my head it's very easy (and fun) to see my implementation play out. But it's only when you actually start to make the idea real that unforseen problems come into existence - this is a good thing, it's iteration. But without making the idea tangible, I would argue you cannot realistically measure an idea right? Put another way ideas can only be iterated in your mind. That's great if you are a philosopher (hey you should really be a philosopher). But I think most things that yield empirical data need to exist in reality and therefore you need execution. This is of course taking nothing away from philosophy. Maybe that's what you've been looking for? Or perhaps a futurist or something. You can "sell ideas" via books right? But then again writing a book is creating something tangible =) -- Reading some of your other responses I can see that you take idea iteration quite seriously. This very well puts you leagues above guys that want to "make twitter better" or what not. But I think you need to accept that idea guys are more akin to starving artists. You should create ideas because you love to create ideas, not because you want to monetize them (that's what action is for). This also analogs nicely with philosophers, and other academics. They have to risk "some other guy" ultimately getting credit for work they've also explored. Also academics don't _necessarily_ get paid to "think", they get paid to _teach_ and think.