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> dismissing only the most pressing problems is a silly way to judge ideas You are correct, but if you don't judge ideas on this metric then you risk becoming
by ahussain 9y ago
> dismissing only the most pressing problems is a silly way to judge ideas
You are correct, but if you don't judge ideas on this metric then you risk becoming irrelevant to the vast majority of people, and you are not taken seriously when you say things like "we are going to revolutionize the world"
And yes, it is easy to pick apart those ideas, but that's exactly why more people (especially those who consider themselves talented, fortunate and ambitious) should be tackling them head on - because all the simple, naive approaches don't work.
- 1024core 9y ago> but if you don't judge ideas on this metric then you risk becoming irrelevant to the vast majority of people, Not really. What "pressing problem" was Zuck addressing? Or Dorsey? Taxis have existed for a century, and still Uber sprang up. Sometimes it's equally valuable to create something that people can't live without, even though the need may not exist at the time
- canes123456 9y agoWhatever you think about Facebook, it is not irrelevant to the vast majority of people. What was the pressing issue it was solving? Even the personal computer was not solving a pressing issue at the time. New products create the demand for it and the influence of it only makes sense in retrospect. There are not many solutions that are both achievable and solve obviously huge problems. If there were clear ways to solve these problems, tons of people will have already done it. We solve huge problems by first solving small ones and laddering up.