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It would be awesome to collect some concrete examples of complete beginners coming in with revolutionary ideas - both in business and coding.

• bluedanieru 14y ago
  Examples? Data? That might stem the flow of rubbish fifteen-sentence posts coming out of 37signals these days. Long on philosophizing and short on substance. Like the one the other day that basically shat all over capitalism at a very basic level (a worthy enterprise, perhaps) without offering up any actual arguments or alternatives (booo). How about this: you only get one chance to be a beginner, so make sure you spend it learning quality shit so that you can make awesome contributions once you're a veteran. Oh but that's much less adversarial.
• SatvikBeri 14y ago
  I've posted a few times that when I entered an industry I'd never worked in before, I saw a problem, learned some programming I knew almost nothing about, I managed to make changes that saved the company $2MM/year in about 8 months. I didn't really have any knowledge that others didn't possess. I just assumed that a lot of things that people were doing manually could be automated, then figured out how. This might not qualify as "revolutionary", but $2MM/year was a pretty big accomplishment for me.
• ken 14y ago
  "I once asked Ivan Sutherland, how could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object-oriented software system all in one year? He said, well, I didn't know it was hard!" -- Alan Kay, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZqRJzE8xg#t=3m45s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZqRJzE8xg#t=3m45s