Dave Kiss on Ideas and Execution

I was so disappointed when I first heard the adage "ideas are a dime a dozen." I had plenty of ideas. The hard part, I learned, was actually building the damn thing. Plenty of people have pointed out how that barrier is gone now, but I like how Dave says it.

Remember when coming up with a great idea was the easy part? Ideas were worthless. What was valuable was the commitment. The grit. The planning, the technical prowess, the unwavering ability to think night and day about a product, a problem space, incessantly obsessing, unsatisfied until you had some semblance of a working solution. It took hustle, brain power, studying, iteration, failures.