I was living with a few friends and we were all working in the “internet" industry. A project manager/programmer, a journalist, a designer, a programmer and a production guy, trying to make the transition to the UX/UI areas - this one was me. One of us found a open source tool that would make it easier to build websites - nothing compared to what we see today on Squarespace, The Grid, Wix and the never ending list of building websites available in the market.
We talked a lot of how we could use it as a starting point, customize and use it as commercial tool, which was perfectly legal. Nights and nights of talking, writing on the board, discussing what was turning into a business, a company. We called it TheOneTeam. But here is the thing: all the “we" I’ve written above didn’t include me. I didn’t talk that much. I didn’t propose that much. I didn’t know how to build the idea up and there was a reason for that: I just wanted to be in because they were my friends.
I was thrilled with the opportunity, but not actually engaged with it. I was only going with the flow.