Our Personal Newsfeed?

It's a solid title. But it's missing something. Something newsfeeds have struggled with. They still do. They deliver novelty, yes. But how could they deliver more value? Deep embedded in the name newsfeed, there's a symbiote - "news". What if we could plug in something else there? What if news is not where growth comes from?

I frequently encourage people to extract LEGO pieces they think they could build with from the things they read, watch, observe and do. That's the very powerful art of observation - and more broadly, empathy. Sometimes, the LEGO pieces are just a post it. With 3 words on it, like this title. A post it captured from a conversation. And then from those few words, we build. Reshape. Remix.

In processing "the personal news feed", I want to make it better, to connect it with growth. So I decide to take away "news" from newsfeed. A spark of intuition said: "ideas" could replace "news" for something better. Then I looked it up: "idea, /ʌɪˈdɪə/, noun, a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action". It then hit me why it made sense. News you are meant to consume. But ideas, you are meant to use, act on.

Instead of newsfeeds, maybe we could be ideasfeeds. Wouldn't that make the world better?