Ideas: Moat or Not?
Is the content of my head a moat?
Are the ideas I publish on my blog the moat that sets me apart from my competitors?
If so, should I keep them secret? If not, then what is the moat?
I need to separate the brain as a physical object from ideas as a product of that brain's activity.
I am talking specifically about raw ideas. They are later processed in AI systems, which are also a moat, like any capital, but I will discuss that separately. It is important to understand that AI systems do not come from nowhere either. They result from ideas that someone formulated and then implemented step by step. For my systems, that someone is primarily me. I then multiplied those ideas by other people's ideas, including with the help of AI.
It seems that ideas themselves are not a moat because they become outdated the moment they appear, even before they are extracted from the brain, as soon as they take shape.
The moat is the state of the brain itself, plus the amplification that AI provides around the flow of ideas generated by that brain.
Ideas are a product. Some can be public. Some can be used to build systems. Some may never be published or even stored. But they must be extracted from my head and recorded as text, or in other forms that I am sure will appear in the near future.
This lets me look at myself from the outside and understand who I am and where I am going.