Shooting down ideas is not a skill

>In a way this is virtuous, because I think startups are a good thing. But really what motivates us is the completely amoral desire that would motivate any hacker who looked at some complex device and realized that with a tiny tweak he could make it run more efficiently. In this case, the device is the world's economy, which fortunately happens to be open source.

After a while you learn to ignore criticism. I'm not really interested in what people have to say who would never become users anyway. They're simply not the demographic. It's all noise, and when I was younger and more impressionable it caused serious self-doubt. But when I demo something and I see the eyes light up, and then they say "well, what about this?", that's pure gold.

[0] https://paulgraham.com/whyyc.html

When someone is super optimistic and comes forward with an idea where:

- it's actually just a half baked solution for something I already tried to solve 4 years ago

- I'm acutely aware of all the spots it will fall

- they still think it can work, when it really really honestly can not

- they lack the experience to see that it won't work and become frustrated when I point out 20 problems with it and why it's not worth pursuing further

^ what exactly am I supposed to do with the above? You can take the advice/critique or leave it, but if I'm supposed to try to help and nurture a dead end instead of telling you the issues with it, that makes no sense to me.