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> In that time, I internalized a simple truth: ideas are cheap, execution is everything. This has never been true. To believe this, you would have had to miss
by yobbo 9mo ago
> In that time, I internalized a simple truth: ideas are cheap, execution is everything.
This has never been true.
To believe this, you would have had to miss the number of functioning apps and games on all the app stores that no one cares about, to just give one example. Or all the excellent but abandoned open source projects.
Rewards follow an exponential distribution ("power law ..."). Ideas and execution are important ingredients. Furthermore, they are not easily separable.
- sdf2 9mo agoExecution of great ideas is what yield success - the two are joined at the hip. But the great idea precedes the execution. Execution without a great idea is in essence a sunk cost of ones life.