These trends are either evolutionary or entirely predictable. Several so predictable that they first made their debut in movies long before most of us were born.
I think this is what he means. Working on any of these ideas doesn't make you an innovator. You might do something in a slightly better or more novel way, but we aren't inventing crap.
And if you don't execute on your slightly better path, you'll still be beat by someone with a slightly worse idea who buckled down and delivered.
Silicon Valley is littered with companies with better ideas and better base products that lost.
The adage "we stand on the shoulders of giants" comes to mind. Some of the louder people in our industry could stand to remember this.
In truth, there are no giants (or maybe very few). Even the giants of the adage are actually made up of innumerable little people supporting each other.
Do note that when Newton coined the term "standing on the shoulders of giants" in a letter to Hooke, scholars believe he was making a friendly joke about Hooke being a rather delicately built man.
Talking about technology is necessary to attract people to our own work and find new ideas ourselves. Open source, vendor, Saas. All get value out of conferences, meetups, articles, etc.
Sure, not every word adds value, but the same could be said of code.
I agree and I was surprised how Justin Vincent (the OP) stalked and outed Cory. If he thought he could damage Cory's reputation he just damaged his own.
If I were the OP I would just delete the post. This is a free market and it shows that having and executing a nice idea is just half the battle, you need to think also about how to make your business model defensible, something the OP haven't done.
Very good comment which applies to many console apps. I did this with Vim, the only custom key is 'jk' instead of <Esc>. But Vim has really good and sensible defaults. But tmux' % and " (for vertical and horizontal splits) are so counterintuitive, I kept them but still after many years, I still have to think a millisecond every time which of them to press and on top you need to press Shift as well which makes it even more cumbersome.
Out of curiosity: Why do you write a book and let it be read publicly if you sell it as well? Why should somebody buy a book when all the content is available for free? Is this done to create some awareness for the book and thus to improve SEO (e.g. generating good backlinks, etc.). And later you restrict the public available content once SEO backlink power is generated?
Our of curiosity 2: Are you happy with the sales, how many books could you sell already (if you don't mind to tell us)? Would you write again a book about a console-based app?
Also interesting: Enter a product from another consumer electronics category such as 'iphone' and you see how VR and other categories relate to each other in terms of search volume.
While Gatsby looks good, I remember that the last time I looked at it Gatsby was always loading all blog posts. This isn't a problem for a small blog but with a blog with hundreds of posts this wouldn't be efficient. Plus there are some SEO issues because of its SPA nature. Are this issues still valid or did Gatsby changed in these regards?
- Talk of AI is bullshit. Shut up and get the work done.
- Talk of Machine Learning is bullshit. Shut up and get the work done.
- Talk of VR is bullshit. Shut up and get the work done.
- Talk of Smart Contracts is bullshit. Shut up and get the work done.
- Talk of IoT is bullshit. Shut up and get the work done.
Not sure if I entirely agree with him but there's some truth.