Re: re almost inventing things

2016-01-26 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 2:45 AM, Mark Atwood wrote: > My lesson I take away from that is not that I am some special fount of > valuable ideas, but that nearly everyone who works in the right parts of > the tech space is, but that means little, as ideas are cheap, it's > execution that is valuable

Re: re almost inventing things

2016-01-26 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Mark Atwood : > My lesson I take away from that is not that I am some special fount of > valuable ideas, but that nearly everyone who works in the right parts of > the tech space is, but that means little, as ideas are cheap, it's > execution that is valuable. I think this is *mostly* true. Occas

re almost inventing things

2016-01-26 Thread Mark Atwood
Re almost inventing DVCS and almost inventing Linux. I keep a notebook list of ideas that I know I had, that I didnt have the interest, realization, drive, time, or skills, to chase and execute on, that within a year or two later had burst onto the scene as billion dollar VC funded "awesome tech".