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Based on the limited info we have, I would guess that he's a perfectionist. I've known a couple of people who have ruined great ideas and initial traction due
by sixQuarks 8y ago
Based on the limited info we have, I would guess that he's a perfectionist. I've known a couple of people who have ruined great ideas and initial traction due to their perfectionism.
- ColanR 8y agoYou can see an image of his later iterations later in the article [1]. It does look like there isn't much improvement between them, except what a perfectionist might find to tinker with. [1] https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/protos.png https://thehustle.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/protos.png
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- taneq 8y agoAn excellent example of "perfect is the enemy of good".
- narrator 8y agoI think it's even worse than perfectionism. It's a fear of success. Some engineers have this fear that they've only got a few good ideas in them and once they finish with this one, they'll never have a second one, so they've got to milk this one for all it's worth because once they're done they'll be all used up.
- alttab 8y agoBut in this case it's not like he's milked it at all. Your description more aptly fits Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
- narrator 8y agoThis guy is trying to milk it, because he thinks if he gives it up he'll have no more good ideas for the rest of his life. Mark Z. on the other hand is doing just fine and could start trying to do space travel like Bezos, but he doesn't really lose anything doing what he's doing because it's working.
- alttab 8y agoBut there isn't any milk. Zuck is milking it. Zuck could do other things, instead he continues to do Facebook and similar acquisitions. He is milking it. This other dude isn't getting any milk. He's pulling a teet with nothing in it.
- narrator 8y agoPerhaps it's that he believes he is eventually going to succeed and he's convinced himself of this since he also consciously or subconsciously believes that if he doesn't he won't have any other ideas so he might as well try forever to get this idea to work.
- alttab 8y agoPotentially, but there still needs to be milk to milk it. Sounds like this guy is too focused on an idea that he hasn't executed well. That's like trying to milk a starving cow, because none of the other animals on your farm are alive.