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Stop waiting for your big idea, learn to get shit done
- mrtron 18y agoGood concept, but rehashed here many times. This time lacking in details or interesting anecdotal evidence. It is a very tough thing to do though - getting started. I am currently trying to help a friend get going and he is really struggling. After university working about 1 hour a day, and then in his career for the last few years doing the same he is struggling to put in enough hours to get anything rolling. If someone has a tutorial for that - I would definitely appreciate that and forward it on.
- icey 18y agoThis is pretty much the most valuable advice anyone could give. Ideas are worth nothing, implementations are worth everything. (Of course, in my broad over-generalization we have to include the fact that people who ship are people who succeed).
- rw 18y agoIf ideas are worth nothing, why do we try to have good ones?
- jrsims 18y agoSo that we'll have something to implement, thereby creating value?
- code_devil 18y agoI totally agree. You might have a good idea, but if you don't implement it timely or even ever, its worthless.
- quellhorst 18y agoBecause it is easier to talk about doing than actually doing and anticipation of a dream can be better than the fulfillment of it.
- wallflower 18y ago"There is a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things" -Stephen R. Covey from "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"
- rokhayakebe 18y agoOk let's do one thing. No more post about the topics below for about one month: - "motivational" post, (you may ask if you need it, but unless someone asks please do not freely give any for 1 month) - "Twitter related" post (let's let this guys Be ) - "I quit..." (Good, here is a candy and now please go work on your Google meets Twitter killer app) * and finally Ask "Do I really find this interesting?" before hitting Submit ( I will do this one more often myself)
- edw519 18y agoThe topic isn't the problem. Any of the things you cited could be good posts. They just need a little meat on the bones, preferably from personal experience, not just a list of the obvious. Tell us something we don't know.
- babul 18y agoMainly applies to regular HN users? New/infrequent users will not be aware of this (without a sticky or an intro or more vocal policing!?!) so the problem will persist. Other than implementing this upon ourselves how can it be applied to others effectively?
- omouse 18y agoThen it's your job as a regular to flag those posts and state the reason why you flagged it.
- edw519 18y agoStop waiting for your big idea, learn to get shit done That's like telling a farmer, "Stop waiting for your crops to grow; plant some seeds first." For hackers, DoingStuff = PlantingSeeds.
- mhb 18y agoTo achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time. - Leonard Bernstein
- sabat 18y agoI dunno -- a few people here are tired of this kind of post, and I understand why: we seem them a lot. But some of us need a regular asskick. So we don't mind as much.
- code_devil 18y agoreality checks once a while :-)
- watmough 18y agoYeah, we shouldn't underestimate how hard "Getting shit done." really is. For example, I downloaded the iPhone SDK on the first day, and have been in the programme for ages, and only now do I have some actual code running, and even that doesn't do that much, except scratch a personal itch. Scratching this itch took until well after 1am last night, and probably the same today. No wonder my company wants me in a fabric box 9 hours a day!
- brooksbp 18y agoI agree with this point of view, but I think it could be taken the wrong way and I don't think that it should apply to all wannabe entrepreneurs. There's a fine line between a good product or driving force of a startup, and just creating shit because someone gave you a little kick in the ass...