- It is hard to categorise ideas when one is thinking across disciplines but I will attempt to do so anyway. This stems from a conversation with Preet and Joey. - Ideas begin (and make it into the wild?) as: - prototypes of engineering things, which can also become finished products; - theories and hypotheses; - working drafts of articles, books, - In this vein, any of the following qualify as ideas: - prototypes: Linux, WhatsApp, JupyterNotebooks, - hypotheses: Newton's Laws of Motion, Darwinian evolution; and - working drafts: a joke, or a book. - This varied list is purely to highlight the fundamental notion that ideas have a broad span and reach. - The ideas that never scale are not transformative in the same manner- which does not mean that the ideas are not good nor potentially impactful.