It may not be obvious when you're caught in the rat race, but really impactful ideas are mostly those than no one else is working on.
Whether you're building a product or doing research, if you're afraid to get scooped then your idea wasn't important enough to begin with.
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This is a good heuristic for picking a research topic or a product concept. What enormously important idea is no one working on right now?
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shows that these discoveries would have happened independently of their "inventors". Not a good use of one's unique resources.
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How is that true? The afraid part aside, people are doing novel research concurrently. See Nobel/Fields Medal.
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cd easily argue: if there's 0% chance of getting scooped you're prolly working on wrong thing. in truth: a bit of both
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Not sure if coincidence, but Peter Thiel said almost the exact same thing but for startups. To quote from the book Zero To One...
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"The business version of our contrarian question is: "what valuable company is nobody building"?"
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don't startups face the exact same issue? Don't people talk about stealth mode in similar terms?
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don't ppl get caught up in their own minds doing this? Isn't it quite rare that the most important thing are what no one works on?
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