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As soon as I finished reading this I hit the back button and my eyes scrambled across the HN frontpage list looking for the article I just read so I could upvot

As soon as I finished reading this I hit the back button and my eyes scrambled across the HN frontpage list looking for the article I just read so I could upvote it. I've never been so stupidly excited to upvote something. This analogy and article are perhaps the best I've heard on the subject because its a metaphor that the ideas people in my life can actually understand. The metaphor doesn't fret about engineering time, or how simple programming might look but how hard it really is. Ideas people can't relate to those rebuttals anyway. Instead it brings a very concrete example that almost all humans can understand right away. You want to understand the difference execution makes in an idea? There's a difference between a 9 dollar steak and a 200 dollar steak and its not just the meat, and lots of people understand that. And so I'm going to forward this to a certain ten people in my life.

Skaught 15y ago
I've always enjoyed creating analogies like to see why certain behaviors, mindsets, and tactics are okay in some industries and others not. To wet your palette a bit more here's a wonderful essay analogizing math education to music (Famously, The Mathematician's Lament) http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf And a TED Talk comparing the use of patents and trademarks in the fashion industry to software. http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio... Both are quite insightful, and I think you'll enjoy them.
- apu 15y ago
  FYI: "whet your palate"
Tomis 15y ago
I've never yawned harder this week. I mean seriously, you've been on HN for three years and you found this article interesting? As in "idea = 0, execution = profit"? As in "HN 101"? This is the thing that you have been most excited about to upvote, ever? I can't really grep that. Seeing platitudes like this upvoted so much make me conclude HN has a lot of new users upvoting this stuff, but what you're excited about is beyond me.

Skaught 15y ago

I've always enjoyed creating analogies like to see why certain behaviors, mindsets, and tactics are okay in some industries and others not. To wet your palette a bit more here's a wonderful essay analogizing math education to music (Famously, The Mathematician's Lament) http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf And a TED Talk comparing the use of patents and trademarks in the fashion industry to software. http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashio... Both are quite insightful, and I think you'll enjoy them.

apu 15y ago
FYI: "whet your palate"

Tomis 15y ago

I've never yawned harder this week. I mean seriously, you've been on HN for three years and you found this article interesting? As in "idea = 0, execution = profit"? As in "HN 101"? This is the thing that you have been most excited about to upvote, ever? I can't really grep that. Seeing platitudes like this upvoted so much make me conclude HN has a lot of new users upvoting this stuff, but what you're excited about is beyond me.