What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years
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#2While I don't disagree with the principle of this logic, can it be backed up some how with past examples? Were "the smartest people" really hacking on serious phone apps before iPhone and Android came out? (as an example)
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#3Which hobbyist invented the web? Blogs? It isn't at all obvious to me who he is citing, if these people are hobbyists.
Also, was "most" open source software a hobby, or a professional scratching an itch?
And the first pc? Is Chris trying to say that's woz, and he was a hobbyist?
The whole blog post is a little too pat.
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#4I think this is, on the whole, probably false. There are a lot of things the smartest people do on the weekend which will never catch on, because there is not much of a business case behind them. Not everything interesting is monetizable.
One example: a lot of the smartest computer scientists of the 1960s were really into algorithmic art as a side-project hobby. Was algorithmic art mainstream in the 1970s? No. Hell, it isn't even mainstream today.
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#5I thought of it always as "What technologists, teenagers, and rap artists do, we'll all be doing in 5 years."
I never thought I'd see news anchors do an exploding fist bump.
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#6While I don't disagree with the principle of this logic, can it be backed up some how with past examples? Were "the smartest people" really hacking on serious phone apps before iPhone and Android came out? (as an example)
Yes, see jailbreaking. iPhones were hacked before a native SDK was officially available.
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#7"Business people vote with their dollars, and are mostly trying to create near term financial returns. Engineers vote with their time, and are mostly trying to invent interesting new things."
I really like that.
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#8Which hobbyist invented the web? Blogs? It isn't at all obvious to me who he is citing, if these people are hobbyists. Also, was "most" open source software a hobby, or a professional scratching an itch? And the first pc? Is Chris trying to say that's woz, and he was a hobbyist? The whole blog post is a little too pat.
Is usenet not the precursor to Reddit? And the first blogs were certainly hobbiests. look at BBS zines as one example.
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#9I think this is, on the whole, probably false. There are a lot of things the smartest people do on the weekend which will never catch on, because there is not much of a business case behind them. Not everything interesting is monetizable. One example: a lot of the smartest computer scientists of the 1960s were really into algorithmic art as a side-project hobby. Was algorithmic art mainstream in the 1970s? No. Hell,…
What's interesting to one person may have value to just that person, or it might be applicable to wider audiences.
Things that have value (to people in general) are monetizable.
That would explain why not all interesting things are monetizable.
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#10Day in and day out there are articles on here talking about how the smartest people "optimize" their time as if just relaxing and doing stuff with your friends/family is something only the unwashed masses do. Frankly I like my weekends a lot better when I'm not subjecting myself to "time optimization" or hobbies that take over my life.