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