More laddermill / spidermill ideas

No, I thought the video was nice. It explained some of the principles behind string shooter pipes and did it nicely. And it at least wasn’t another video of that time waster.

This idea wouldn’t work.

What are some reasons this idea wouldn’t work do you think? After you’ve worked on an idea for a bit you absolutely need to look at where you are going wrong to avoid wasting your time. Preexisting knowledge and experience can help with this.

The best thing for you to do would be to learn about wind energy, and do some project based learning where you make say an rc plane, a kite, a wind turbine, and so on from existing plans.

After you have a bit more experience you can more easily make a list of reasons why this idea for example is bad.

Now it’s like you keep asking what do you think the answer to 2+1 is, and to 3+4, and to 2+1? Do some homework yourself beforehand and you’ll get more help.


We all have dumb ideas. The trick is to not only think about why an idea might be good, but after a while also think about why it might be bad. It’s a cycle. Think of dumb idea > develop it > develop it > shit, it’s drag based > pivot > develop it > nope, bad idea > hmm, I like that aspect of it > develop that > no, bad idea after all > ask for feedback > …