Do you have a lot of startup ideas? - Forget it!
I have a friend, let me call him Harry. Perhaps he will read this, so I will try to be very diplomatic. So, Harry is an idiot who constantly talks and thinks about the same idea of a startup.
And Harry has been living in the same apartment for the last four years, working at the same job, and he spent his last four vacations on the Mediterranean.
To all, Harry's computer is stuffed with notes about all sorts of things: TV shows that he has been collecting for the past four years; half completed projects that he periodically works on. He writes in PHP, Ruby on Rails and uses Eclipse, as, indeed, all the past four years. His music does not change over the years.
He is always busy working on ongoing projects, and he never seems to finish them or archive them.
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Completely uninvited and unnecessary, and probably misunderstood by him, I still gave him this advice: “Remove everything from the whole screw! This list of ideas that you keep - get rid of it. Half-read book - just delete it. These films that you have never watched - throw away these DVDs. The book close to completion that you want to finish someday - put it in storage. ”
All this shit that you have been collecting for years, all this crap, littering your life - all this pulls you back and does not allow you to move, does not allow you to do something new. This list of ideas for a startup is a real barricade that prevents you from really starting to start a startup. This list of future blog posts does not help you to really write them.
Throw away this trash. Open the source for unfinished projects and go! If all this stretches so long, then you will never finish it. Do something really new, something modern. How about a base for Amazon (Amazon SimpleDB)? Or maybe an application for phones on Windows 7? Or a new application for the iPad? Maybe this will be a book of intellectual jokes?
Come on, move! Get new music. Put on new clothes. Go where you have not been. If you want to change, do not expect that he will come to you, just sit down and ... change, brother.
PS % username% , be vigilant! Do not confuse the topic translation with copyright material. Harry is not my friend. This is a translation of the author’s article, which, in fact, can be understood from the link below and the corresponding icon.
And Harry has been living in the same apartment for the last four years, working at the same job, and he spent his last four vacations on the Mediterranean.
To all, Harry's computer is stuffed with notes about all sorts of things: TV shows that he has been collecting for the past four years; half completed projects that he periodically works on. He writes in PHP, Ruby on Rails and uses Eclipse, as, indeed, all the past four years. His music does not change over the years.
He is always busy working on ongoing projects, and he never seems to finish them or archive them.
')
Completely uninvited and unnecessary, and probably misunderstood by him, I still gave him this advice: “Remove everything from the whole screw! This list of ideas that you keep - get rid of it. Half-read book - just delete it. These films that you have never watched - throw away these DVDs. The book close to completion that you want to finish someday - put it in storage. ”
All this shit that you have been collecting for years, all this crap, littering your life - all this pulls you back and does not allow you to move, does not allow you to do something new. This list of ideas for a startup is a real barricade that prevents you from really starting to start a startup. This list of future blog posts does not help you to really write them.
Throw away this trash. Open the source for unfinished projects and go! If all this stretches so long, then you will never finish it. Do something really new, something modern. How about a base for Amazon (Amazon SimpleDB)? Or maybe an application for phones on Windows 7? Or a new application for the iPad? Maybe this will be a book of intellectual jokes?
Come on, move! Get new music. Put on new clothes. Go where you have not been. If you want to change, do not expect that he will come to you, just sit down and ... change, brother.
PS % username% , be vigilant! Do not confuse the topic translation with copyright material. Harry is not my friend. This is a translation of the author’s article, which, in fact, can be understood from the link below and the corresponding icon. 
before the topic. You can ask all your questions in the comments to the article.
But the article caught me, made me look at some old things in a new way.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/111632/
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