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Lots of people thought of it, but discounted it because it was a dumb idea An idea that costs almost nothing to do with almost nothing to lose.
by m4tta 10y ago
Lots of people thought of it, but discounted it because it was a dumb idea
An idea that costs almost nothing to do with almost nothing to lose.
- vannevar 10y agoAlmost being the operative word here. Compared to the eventual payoff, yes, almost nothing. But I'll bet Tew actually spent quite a bit of time working on the idea, time he might've spent on something else with much better prospects for success. He's a classic case of survivor's bias: we only know about him because he was successful. We don't know about the thousands of others that pursued similarly dumb ideas (maybe even the same one) and failed.