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gdiamostoday at 8:02 AM1 replyview on HN

In hindsight I disagree.

Instead I like “only work on impossible problems”

Most of them turn out to be impossible, but some of them turn out to be possible.

I’ve never met anyone who could pick 3 and be confident in getting even one right. Tokens are a terrible analogy for innovation or research.

In hindsight I’ve had to sift through hundreds or more to fine one that worked.

I thought this post was helpful when I first started thinking about startups.

After more time, I think boring tech isn’t worth thinking about.


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red_admiraltoday at 8:47 AM

Innovation or research, maybe. Keeping an enterprise system running and maintainable is the opposite problem.

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