Yeah, I remember the day when my default action on thinking up an "awesome game-changing idea" became immediately looking up who had already tried it and why it

Yeah, I remember the day when my default action on thinking up an "awesome game-changing idea" became immediately looking up who had already tried it and why it didn't work. Older, sadder, wiser. It gets better, eventually you think of an idea that some tried that did work and feel a little better.