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Comments like your express an unfortunately common, yet incredibly reductive, sentiment. Execution of course matters. But the innate value of an idea is also ex

Comments like your express an unfortunately common, yet incredibly reductive, sentiment. Execution of course matters. But the innate value of an idea is also extremely important. A poorly executed good idea can easily out perform a well executed bad idea.

monkin 4y ago
There’s nothing reductive in my comment. I didn’t mention the quality of execution, yet you have to build something to learn from it, even if it’s a bad idea. Having just ideas bring nothing to the table, no matter how good they are. Here we come to another interesting fact: companies will pivot many times after building the initial idea.
- hackernewds 4y ago
  https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-09-11 https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-09-11
fleetwoodsnack 4y ago
Yep, and reformulations of similar ideas also tend to introduce subtle and nuanced changes that make for substantive distinctions.
slightwinder 4y ago
> But the innate value of an idea is also extremely important. Disputable. Many people have many ideas. Just the mass alone diminishes the general value of ideas. > A poorly executed good idea can easily out perform a well executed bad idea. Also disputable. For the evaluation, result matters most. And a bad idea which still solves a problem, is better than a good idea which just exists in its own isolated bubble, doing nothing worthful. The tech-world is full of fancy oversmart ideas and their implementations. Yet many of them fail because neither a good idea, nor some half decent implementation alone have enough worth to survive.
lelanthran 4y ago
> A poorly executed good idea can easily out perform a well executed bad idea. That'd be something I've never seen. Any examples?
loxias 4y ago
> A poorly executed good idea can easily out perform a well executed bad idea. One of the maxims I adopted from a mentor was that good execution of a mediocre idea will beat poor execution of a great idea. So far, it's been true everywhere I look. We're surrounded with decent execution of horrible ideas. Meant with all due respect, but.. I think you've got it backwards? Great ideas have no innate value, they're easy to come up with.

monkin 4y ago

There’s nothing reductive in my comment. I didn’t mention the quality of execution, yet you have to build something to learn from it, even if it’s a bad idea. Having just ideas bring nothing to the table, no matter how good they are. Here we come to another interesting fact: companies will pivot many times after building the initial idea.

hackernewds 4y ago
https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-09-11 https://dilbert.com/strip/2015-09-11

fleetwoodsnack 4y ago

Yep, and reformulations of similar ideas also tend to introduce subtle and nuanced changes that make for substantive distinctions.

slightwinder 4y ago

> But the innate value of an idea is also extremely important. Disputable. Many people have many ideas. Just the mass alone diminishes the general value of ideas. > A poorly executed good idea can easily out perform a well executed bad idea. Also disputable. For the evaluation, result matters most. And a bad idea which still solves a problem, is better than a good idea which just exists in its own isolated bubble, doing nothing worthful. The tech-world is full of fancy oversmart ideas and their implementations. Yet many of them fail because neither a good idea, nor some half decent implementation alone have enough worth to survive.

lelanthran 4y ago

> A poorly executed good idea can easily out perform a well executed bad idea. That'd be something I've never seen. Any examples?

loxias 4y ago

> A poorly executed good idea can easily out perform a well executed bad idea. One of the maxims I adopted from a mentor was that good execution of a mediocre idea will beat poor execution of a great idea. So far, it's been true everywhere I look. We're surrounded with decent execution of horrible ideas. Meant with all due respect, but.. I think you've got it backwards? Great ideas have no innate value, they're easy to come up with.