I think a bigger problem than not being smart is having more than one idea over time; the new one supplants the old.
I once struggled to explain to a top-notch guy what I did for the company we knew. "Ah", he said, "you're a problem solver", and he was right. Then it varied from people popping their head round the door with a question to larger scale performance issues. Now it means after solving the problems of how to do one good idea I'm attracted by the problems of the new one rather than persevering with bringing idea #1 to completion.
On Reddit, I recall one day in which there were 4 polls on the front page, and two other posts complaining about the polls.
For the most part, we all agree that polls don't belong as part of the comment system. PG has offered to write dedicated poll code.
Let's try to band together to avoid filling up the stories with Polls, Stories Complaining about polls, then complaining about complaining about polls, and the like. ;)
But if we avoid requiring the dedicated poll code, PG won't need to get around to writing it... So the obvious solution is that everyone should make a point of doing a poll a day until PG writes the code.
I once struggled to explain to a top-notch guy what I did for the company we knew. "Ah", he said, "you're a problem solver", and he was right. Then it varied from people popping their head round the door with a question to larger scale performance issues. Now it means after solving the problems of how to do one good idea I'm attracted by the problems of the new one rather than persevering with bringing idea #1 to completion.