The theme of International Ideas Month is the potential of ideas. I have always been one to sit around an think things over. I also find myself short on ideas from time to time. I find that having a specific problem helps, like writing an algorithm to effect some programmatic operation ... but that too wains in my old age.
I think it's a function of one too many checks coming each month without having to get up and go to work.
Albert Einstein is my personal hero. This is due not only to his vast scientific accomplishments but those things between the lines that I gleaned from his writings. While his purview is not gadgets nor devices he certainly gave input regarding the background of how the universe works and Oppenheimer likely is forever in his debt.
Small ideas can lead to large discoveries. International Ideas Month is that catalyst which places it all at your disposal for use in that which you do.
Happy International Ideas Month and I hope your next idea is a Nobel prize winner.