4 ms·

I think the point is to deliver. You are better off delivering than talking. Shut up, sit down and get shit done so you can deliver.

• k__ 13y ago
  True story. I had to learn this after my studies. You have to get shit done or nobody listens to you. But I met many people who just learned this and not much else. They building huges piles of shit and sell them to people who don't know any better.
  • vladmk 13y ago
    Good point. At the end of the day the people who build piles of shit may realize to re-iterate their product and stop building shit, but the people that never build shit in the first place don't get shit. ;)
    • k__ 13y ago
      I wish you were right. The problem with successful people is, they think they know everything.
      • vladmk 13y ago
        I'll say you're half right on that one, I've met my fair share of those guys and vice versa. I don't ever think you know should think you know everything. The point of the article is putting stuff out in the field and testing is much better than theorizing, most people just theorize. Imagine a world where I internalized that blog post in my head, we'd never be having this conversation I wouldn't get any insight on my thinking or essay writing abilities. lol
• LnxPrgr3 13y ago
  It seems obvious enough that always reading and never acting is pretty useless: even if you remember everything you read and it was all good information, there's no magic force that turns correct knowledge into anything useful to anyone else. So… spending every waking hour consuming information isn't a good idea if your goal is to deliver a product. That doesn't mean going in completely half-cocked is the answer either, though. Would you suggest that a budding young programmer skip reading about computer science, or about interesting new languages and frameworks? After all, C was a perfectly fine tool in the 70s—who needs anything else? And premature optimization is the root of all evil—why even think about algorithmic complexity? The good ol' linked list is all you should ever need, right? I don't know where exactly the happy medium is, but I suspect there is one. At some point, you have to start actually doing something. That doesn't mean talking and reading are a complete waste of time—just that talking and reading aren't building. They are, at best, giving you extra tools to build and sell a product in the future.
• vladmk 13y ago
  Exactly! :) that was the whole point of the article...did it sound like I was telling people to shut up?...perhaps.