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Re:Airbnb (YC W09): The Rise of the One-Room Hotel by pg on Saturday November 13, 2010 @07:01PM (#1902036)
Yes. More generally it's remarkable how often not getting something you wanted turns out to be for the better. Perhaps because improving your situation often also constrains your options, and we undervalue lack of constraint because we underestimate how much things could change in the future (or how mistaken we could be now).
Re:Airbnb (YC W09): The Rise of the One-Room Hotel by jamesteow on Saturday November 13, 2010 @11:47PM (#1902557)
I think of it as providing more options. When one doesn't get what they want, they are usually forced to look into other different options, which subsequently provides alternate futures that they possibly never predicted because they were so set on a future dependent on the 'something' that wasn't acquired.