As most of you now know, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking recently. I’ve even been ranting a fair bit. I sound downbeat when I talk about it (as I did at GeekUp this week), but there are small shards of optimism I can extract from all of the discussion, and it’s those I’m going to focus on.

For several years now, an idea has been bugging me. It addresses hard problems, big social issues I care about, and I believe I can actually do something useful, innovative and entertaining in the space. I have called it Kagtum.

The article I found the most upbeat about my rant has actually make me think it’s worth dealing with this set of problems again from a fresh perspective and push the ideas forward into code.

In the years thinking about these problems I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to make it happen. I’d spoken to a lot of people. I’d sniffed around investors. I’d watched blogs by people in the same space and saw where they were heading and thought about where they might trip up. I’ve watched people trip up (90% of them by focusing on the wrong thing), and made mental notes.

Today, something clicked. I realised can actually make the beta happen, in my spare time quicker than I thought and not break a sweat whilst having fun. And, even better, I don’t need to drop any of my current commitments around vagueware, idea banks, other business ideas.

That sounds like a plan.

So, it’s time to kick things off. I’m trying to recruit a user base of people interested in news, current affairs and emerging technology against which to bounce ideas off. I’ve started that process by setting up a page on Facebook and CPC’ing people on FB interested in those topics. If you want to become a fan, please do so and you’ll be behind the wall on the first release.

The Vision Thing will continue. However, now I’m going to try and deal with the issues not by complaining, whining, ranting and criticising, but trying to find a way to be optimistic and beat a path. I will aim to show, not tell. Maybe I’ll mess up and people will laugh, maybe I won’t. Should be fun finding out, either way.