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tyleotoday at 5:44 PM1 replyview on HN

I have a principle similar to this. The First Idiot Principle: never be afraid to be the first idiot in the room. Usually others have the same reservations you do about sharing.

If you want to hear more I wrote a small post.

https://www.tyleo.com/blog/the-first-idiot-principle


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mygoochtoday at 6:48 PM

I have no problem being the first, it's that I'm also the ~3rd, ~9th, ~24th and then they realize, wait, he's not a creative genius at all, we hired a total fucking retard!

Just when they give up on you hit em with a masterpiece.

You can roil economies by acting like this.