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Thinking you created the wave is similar to confusing your own efforts with... luck. I've been reviewing the early days of my business, and tremendous luck was

by 10ren 17y ago

Thinking you created the wave is similar to confusing your own efforts with... luck. I've been reviewing the early days of my business, and tremendous luck was involved. Sure, I was there, and did the work, but a big part of it was the wave. I'm not sure that I could do it again, without finding another such wave... so I guess I have to become a surfer, and study the waves... problem is, I'm not much interested in that... And then he pokes fun at web 2.0 (e.g. copying names like flickr, del.icio.us and 37signals). I'm sure you already got all that - I mainly wrote this for the people complaining about it. I think ze frank would be great at startup school.

nfnaaron 17y ago
"I've been reviewing the early days of my business, and tremendous luck was involved. Sure, I was there, and did the work, but a big part of it was the wave." Without the luck, the hard work would have had less effect, but without the hard work the luck would have had no effect. So, it was the hard work. Some of that work was recognizing the world that luck presented to you: studying the waves.
- 10ren 17y ago
  That's true, and it implies an interesting algebra of causation. Thanks for both!