{"id":2720,"date":"2013-05-07T19:57:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T00:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2013-05-07T19:57:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T00:57:31","slug":"seeing-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/05\/07\/seeing-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot say this better than Dustin Curtis can, so read it: <a href=\"http:\/\/dcurt.is\/what-a-stupid-idea\">What a stupid idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>They saw the future and they built it.<\/strong> But for some reason, my first reaction to their earliest attempts wasn&#8217;t to give them the benefit of the doubt\u2014it was to immediately find problems and then dismiss their ideas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The future is extremely hard to see through the lens of the present.<\/strong> It&#8217;s very easy to unconsciously dismiss the first versions of something as frivolous or useless. Or as stupid ideas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We all talk about being disruptive, but how many people say things like &#8220;the relational database market is a $9bn market, I want to reduce it to a $3bn market and take 1\/3 of that&#8221;? Saying is one thing, having the vision is another. That was me paraphrasing Marten Mickos (former CEO, MySQL &#8211; exit $1bn) <a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2013\/03\/07\/danny-rimer-how-open-source-helped-create-the-modern-startup\/\">speaking<\/a> to Danny Rimer (partner, Index Ventures).<\/p>\n<p>I live by the mantra that the best way to predict the future is to engineer it (via Alan Kay) and that the future is wide open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot say this better than Dustin Curtis can, so read it: What a stupid idea. They saw the future and they built it. But for some reason, my first reaction to their earliest attempts wasn&#8217;t to give them the benefit of the doubt\u2014it was to immediately find problems and then dismiss their ideas. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[1381,1049,445],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-general","tag-future","tag-innovation","tag-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-HS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}