"ideas are cheap" was one of the most succesful psyops of all time, so unbelievably wrong
Almost everyone I know "came up with" some startup, ex. Uber before Uber existed, yet none of them did it. I have personally thought of maybe 2 startup ideas that later came into existence.
Come to think of it, people in my circle that have ideas left and right are _still_ not founding companies even with modern LLM's that supposedly solved programming, clearly there is a disconnect somewhere.
The correlation between cost and value can be very complicated, especially in the chaotic world (or chaotic situation).
I was thinking it would be great to have a trusted middle man to use to pay for things that wouldn't expose my own bank card details to every website, or to be able to generate one off transaction numbers.
- E.g. an idea is "Everybody should have cheap housing! Or an even better idea, everybody should have free housing."
- Ok, how exactly in concrete terms do we actually do that? (The very expensive Execution of the idea.)
- "Uh, well, I leave that as an exercise to the reader."
Ideas are easy and execution is hard. That's what jaded people mean when they say "ideas are a dime a dozen".
It leaves no escape-hatch to judge that an idea is bad. And bad execution can only be spotted if somebody else does good execution.
Similar to saying a startup needs to get product-market-fit to get success. Success defines that you have product-market-fit.
We are all horrifically bad at thinking about cause and effect, or talking about it.
But yes, I've slowly learnt that doing anything often matters more than a grand idea.
Who's pushing an agenda and why?