@davekarpf @tante I've been in tech since the mid-90s, and I've watched this same thing. I remember being told Paul Graham was a genius, and believed them, so when I read his blog, I thought “he seems to know what he's talking about.”

But then I watched Silicon Valley fail over and over again, not just to produce companies that would be profitable, but all the while encouraging the boom-bust cycle of VCs pouring money into things.

@davekarpf @tante I've occasionally read things he’s written now and wonder how I missed his obvious blind spots.

The more I've been in the industry, the more I've watched success be made not because of the vision of leadership, but because of the competence of the org below them who actually work to define the software cycle and help their employees collaborate most effectively.

We all know ideas are a dime-a-dozen. Success comes from the hard work of bringing that idea to market.