440 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 27 Feb \ on: You Are Not Late mostly_harmless
Because here is the other thing the greybeards in 2044 will tell you: Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to be an entrepreneur in 2014? It was a wide-open frontier! You could pick almost any category X and add some AI to it, put it on the cloud. Few devices had more than one or two sensors in them, unlike the hundreds now. Expectations and barriers were low. It was easy to be the first. And then they would sigh, “Oh, if only we realized how possible everything was back then!”
Yes! We earn many points for glorify the past but are treated like loons for glorifying plausible futures.
It also reminds me of how Marc Andreesen said in some interview I can't find that he felt like he was late to the Web.
It's easy to be mad at yourself, as many of us are, for not jumping at the opportunity
keyan.com was available when I was in high school. It still feels like a nightmare I'll wake up from. It also reminds me I'm probably making a related mistake today.
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