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Progress depends on the fool and the greater fool. The only way to be right always is to not take a position at all. Progress depends on people believing that t
by dman 14y ago
Progress depends on the fool and the greater fool. The only way to be right always is to not take a position at all. Progress depends on people believing that the world can change for the better in unimaginable ways. Taking a position on unimaginable progress can appear foolish for pretty long periods of time and can ultimately also turn out to be foolish in retrospect. To be a pioneer you have to run the risk of being foolish.
- damoncali 14y agoIt really doesn't. It only requires the creation of value. Hype is optional.
- dman 14y agoHype gets created automatically when someone credibly takes on a problem that most think cannot be done. The only way to sidestep is to do what Andrew Wiles did with the Fermat last theorem - but that might not be a valid strategy for a problem that requires more than a small team.