Thank you, very good post. Echoes my own thoughts. It is a response that I have frequently entertained in my mind to entrepreneurial cheerleaders (and even so

Thank you, very good post. Echoes my own thoughts. It is a response that I have frequently entertained in my mind to entrepreneurial cheerleaders (and even sometimes PG's statements, insofar as they relate to solving truly niche commercial software problems, although I don't think he intentionally suggests that you can do it without the experience by any means). But yes, I'm in telecom and I see outside consultants and vendors who are basically general IT in their orientation show up all the time and think that they can create better OSS/BSS (operational support/billing support systems) solutions, switch provisioning and monitoring software, and workflow/process management in the highly bureaucratised and rather regulated carrier space (i.e. Local Number Portability). Then I see them get fired a few months later because they just haven't the foggiest earthly clue what minefield they stepped into. They would have benefitted from hiring at least one omnicurious person who has actually worked for a competitive carrier first.