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If you wait for pickaxes to be perfected, the gold rush will be over before you start digging. If you insist on only using a mature toolchain/tech stack, you’ll never build anything truly worthwhile. All high value tech co-evolves with its toolchain/stack.
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I feel like I’ve seen an earlier version of this thought somewhere years ago. “Selling pickaxes to miners” is a terrible mental model for innovation. Mature tools sustain commoditized, fungible work. Miners digging for gold aren’t inventors or entrepreneurs. They’re gamblers.
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Innovation work generally looks like building your own pickaxes, to dig with rather than sell to others. Because nobody sells the exact tools you need. Selling pickaxes to miners is a better metaphor for democratization of consumption access. Shadow labor enabling.
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