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From my experience truly visionary project never comes from a group of "talented" people but a single person who had a laser focused vision and did whatever pos
by cocktailpeanuts 9y ago
From my experience truly visionary project never comes from a group of "talented" people but a single person who had a laser focused vision and did whatever possible to make that happen. Having a focused vision is what drives the brilliant solution, not some group of smart people who try to come to a consensus.
- feelin_googley 9y ago"... not some group of smart people who try to come to a consensus." You mean like the IETF?
- cocktailpeanuts 9y agoYes, like IETF. Not discrediting their contribution. Organizations like those are needed, just like how a non-founder operator CEO can be beneficial once a startup takes off.
- feelin_googley 9y agoThe problem I see is when in their supposed wisdom they discredit the potential contribution of some lone visionary. And this goes back to your original premise, with which I strongly agree. History shows that sometimes one highly skilled programmer working alone has accomplished things that teams of programmers could not.
- wmf 9y agoIETF doesn't create the vision (and the results are embarrassing when they try); it standardizes stuff (and lets people add tons of optional complexity) after the initial prototype is done. IEEE and ECMA have similar attitudes while ISO seems to do more design-by-committee.
- feelin_googley 9y agoCouldn't have said it better myself.
- tonyarkles 9y agohttps://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282 http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/24.pdf http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/24.pdf "Rough consensus and running code"