A pattern I've seen in many different fields: even though many people have worked hard in the field, only a small fraction of the space of possibilities has been explored, because they've all worked on similar things.
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Even the smartest, most imaginative people are surprisingly conservative when deciding what to work on. People who would never dream of being fashionable in any other way get sucked into working on fashionable problems.
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Some of the best places of all to find new ideas are fields that people think are played out, because they've already been fully explored. Essays, Lisp, venture funding – you may notice a pattern here.
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The best protection against getting drawn into working on the same things as everyone else may be to genuinely love what you're doing. Then you'll continue to work on it even if you make the same mistake as other people and think that it's too marginal to matter.
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Especially essays. I loved your High School underground newspaper at Gateway!
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Seems like it would be hard to get funding for an unfashionable industry.
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If you pitch it right to the right sort of investor (e.g. Pmarca or Peter Thiel), it can be easier.
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Hmmm what about professional poker? Have you looked into Gus Hansen's meanderings? Should pro chess players also play the most studied openings by your logic?
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Working on the unfashionable is only an option if you are already financially secure.
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Working on the unfashionable is only an option if you are already financially secure.
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We most definitely don't have a shortage of ideas. We have a shortage of funding for outside-the-box ideas. And once you go through 200 meetings plus travel time to actually get that funding, you've lost part of your technical proficiency.
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