"Plans are nothing, planning is everything"
--Dwight Eisenhower

I find the whole idea that a plan for five, ten, and twenty years down the line can somehow be marked complete today asinine.

Take this very site and the mind-mixer app for example... I've only recently joined on and already I'm frustrated and aggravated that apparently many many of the ideas are "closed" to comments and/or voting. How does that facilitate participation?

I desperately want to contribute, but due to the fact that I jumped in *a few months* after the "early" contributors on a twenty-year vision, I'm left out in the cold.

Comprehensive? I'd say we've barely scratched the surface! Example? The word "technology" appears in the community vision document exactly... wait for it... ZERO times. o_O

If there's one thing we can glean from the tech industry over the past decade, it is that this waterfall approach doesn't work. *Planning* and *doing* (and *being* and *enjoying* results) and *reviewing* why this or that succeeded or didn't must be iterative. We must always be accepting of and responsive to new ideas. It's imperative or the community so far engaged will detach and then just a tiny fraction of these ideas will stand any chance of success.

Projects have start dates and completion dates; *planning* does not.

Let's show the world that we can be agile, shall we?