> Even the most interesting technical things Yelp is doing probably involve reinventing something hundreds of other companies have already reinvented. > Do you

> Even the most interesting technical things Yelp is doing probably involve reinventing something hundreds of other companies have already reinvented. > Do you have any internal libraries or systems or platforms at your company? Do you think no one else has ever had the same idea and built the same thing? Sometimes (most of the times?) it's not about being the first one solving the problem in a specific way, but about solving it with the skills and knowledge you have, the best you can, because at the end it's your problem if you took responsibility of it. Personally think that relativizing problems is key, and can find joy in the process of solving them. Food for the brain and personal achievement. Whether it's important or remarkable for anyone else is anyone else's problem. Anyway, none of that matters if the problem isn't interesting for you or you don't care about who you are enabling by solving the problem, doesn't matter if it's a worldwide new problem or a well-known-and-solved one. By looking newer posts at the blog, he/she/they is having fun and writing about problems that aren't novelty, but are anyway personally interesting.