August 2023
Beginner
318 pages
7h 18m
English
Content preview from The Software Developer's Career Handbook
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Epilogue: Hurry
Most interesting ideas come to me between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. This is sacred time. I spend most of this time in the car driving to work. I create two or three startups during the average drive to work. The music from the car speakers and constant hum of traffic provides a creative, catalyzing ambiance.
And then I get to work, and I Google my ideas. “How about a replacement for Twitter?”
It’s called Mastodon. Crap.
“Wait, wait, wait, what we need is people feeds. An RSS-type thing that shows me the relevant events for the people I care about.”
FriendFeed. Right. Someone already did that and nothing became of it. Goddammit.
You’re in a hurry.
Do the math. We are all staring at the same set of data. Yes, there is a lot of data, and there is a very low probability that you can surf it all, but here’s the rub: there are many of us. In fact, there are a lot of us. When you combine all of us with the equally huge amount of data, you understand that when I arrive at work and Google my great ideas, I’m no longer surprised when my precisely designed drive-to-work business model is already a business.
You’re in a Hurry
The epiphany I want to discuss is this: What are you waiting for? Seriously. I know you’ve got a mortgage and 1.5 kids, but during your sacred time, when you discover that bright idea, and subsequently discover that no established competitor exists...why aren’t you making the leap?
I know what you’re waiting for.
See, you’ve been doing the same comfortable ...
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