It's a valid approach but there's a danger in becoming attached to the "antiness". Your defining yourself in the negative when you could just focus on being bet

It's a valid approach but there's a danger in becoming attached to the "antiness". Your defining yourself in the negative when you could just focus on being better. It's implicit in building an alternative that you think the current tools aren't good. Defining yourself relative to a competitor suggests you're worrying about them; a sign of weakness. I try not to think in those terms, and that shifts the goal from, "let's beat x" to "do better". It's better to think of your "competitor" as you. Thinking outside of terms the mentality of "competition" is definitely hard. But I try to keep in mind that everyone is doing the best they can with what they have; I look for the win-win. When Garry Kasparov plays a new player, he doesn't think about winning, he just tries to play a great game of chess.