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Indeed. When I was a kid, I would have ideas for things and just do them. Maybe it worked, maybe it didn't, but I always learned something. Now when I have i
by tjr 17y ago
Indeed. When I was a kid, I would have ideas for things and just do them. Maybe it worked, maybe it didn't, but I always learned something.
Now when I have ideas, I analyze most of them to death, out of concern that... what if it doesn't make money?... what if there's something better I should be working on instead?... etc. So many of my ideas die unused.
Sometimes I see someone else have the same idea and run with it. For example, I thought of the same basic idea as the AfterTheDeadline software, around the same time. I didn't implement it, but someone else did, to great success. Why didn't I do it? I couldn't think of how I could sell it, or who would even use it.
Of course, I applaud the success of AfterTheDeadline. But I gotta stop destroying my own ideas under the hammer of paranoid analysis.
- jacquesm 17y agoYour childhood truth still holds, worst case you will learn something. Go do those things and who knows where it will lead.