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This is cargo culting, is it not? Going for the form, but not the essence.

• mmjaa 8y ago
  All startups go through a cargo cult phase. What differentiates the successful ones from the non-successful/zombie ones is that it is recognised as a phase, and people work damn hard to get out of the cargo-cult zone. When you have a handout to keep you fat, this isn't really conducive to recognising the cargo cult fallacy. It 'feels' like you're successful at your cult, because after all: money is there, and people have given it to you, i.e. the planes arrived and cargo fell out of the sky. But this is so deceptive. The only way to escape the cargo cult phase is to actually build the real things which real people - strangers, beyond the horizon - actually want. Not, those things your local government bureaucrat wants but rather the things that non-native, out-of-scope real customers want. Recognising the cargo cultism takes real balls. Not a lot of people have the balls for it, alas.