Been thinking again about Sam Altman’s comments on co-working spaces, at the tail end of his Conversations With Tyler podcast: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-a
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It’s an interesting combination of a few obvious ideas:
1. Most (smart) people are mimetic.
2. You are the average of the 5 closest people around you.
3. Great ideas are fragile.
4. So … great ideas get crushed when you put a sufficiently large group of smart people together.
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I think the most interesting thing about that is the Chesterton's fence reminder.
The rest to me are... "Funding ideas at scale" views which are largely not relevant to bootstrappers.
I.e. it's probably bad to have a "great idea" as a bootstrappers.
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Well, bootstrapping is a ‘bad idea’ in such circles (they’ll disparage it by saying “it’s not ambitious enough” because they optimise for ambitious-sounding but legibly plausible ideas), so it’s probably best not to hang out there. ;-)
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Yeah I actively avoid it. Will open that game box next time, perhaps.
Now focused on a different game!
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