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Is it just me or is this perhaps taking the story of YouTube Instant a bit far? I mean ya, I guess it got some press and got him a job offer, but it's not like
by nicpottier 15y ago
Is it just me or is this perhaps taking the story of YouTube Instant a bit far?
I mean ya, I guess it got some press and got him a job offer, but it's not like he invented cold fusion or something. It was a cute idea. Can we really draw any kind of real conclusions from it?
Seems like that type of success, of a cute meme taking off is actually rather common, it is the longer term, build a sustainable company, king of success that is much more difficult.
PS. Hate the font formatting, ugh.
- tintin 15y ago"PS. Hate the font formatting, ugh." Guess you meant the formatting on feross.org? At first I also thought 'ugh', but as UI it is great because it is very readable.
- ctdonath 15y agoHe's excited about how successful he can be when applying himself to an idea for a few hours. Scale it to 10,000 hours (Gladwell's Rule for success). And that to >100,000 hours (lifetime devotion to an idea by the hyper-successful). The importance of learning enough to recognize an opportunity, searching for it, finding it, then tenaciously applying oneself to it for decades, is something not taught in schools (at least not well) - most have to figure it out or fall into it.