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The other half of the one-liner is "Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything." - E.g. an idea is "Everybody should have cheap housing! Or an even better idea
by jasode 2mo ago
The other half of the one-liner is "Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything."
- E.g. an idea is "Everybody should have cheap housing! Or an even better idea, everybody should have free housing."
- Ok, how exactly in concrete terms do we actually do that? (The very expensive Execution of the idea.)
- "Uh, well, I leave that as an exercise to the reader."
Ideas are easy and execution is hard. That's what jaded people mean when they say "ideas are a dime a dozen".
- robocat 2mo ago"Execution is everything" is unfortunately tautological in that it implies you first reach success, then you measure the execution and idea. It leaves no escape-hatch to judge that an idea is bad. And bad execution can only be spotted if somebody else does good execution. Similar to saying a startup needs to get product-market-fit to get success. Success defines that you have product-market-fit. We are all horrifically bad at thinking about cause and effect, or talking about it. But yes, I've slowly learnt that doing anything often matters more than a grand idea.