[PaulHoule]

The field of invention attracts a lot of paranoid kooks who will die in obscurity because they won't connect with people to validate and develop their ideas.

I know a guy who's invented a cat toilet and thinks that he invented the white LED and got cheated of the discovery because somebody stole a suitcase out of his car in Manhattan.

If somebody's got an idea and they don't want to talk about it, I start to suspect that there are mental health problems involved, and I'll make sure to steer clear.

[drpancake]

Mental health problems is a bit presumptuous I think! Keeping an idea under wraps is pretty standard behaviour, albeit misguided in many cases

[PaulHoule]

There's stuff I don't talk about, but it's operational stuff, not basic concepts.