Re:You won't find a technical co-founder
by Workaccount2 on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @11:53AM
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I'm not saying that it's not an important skill. I am saying it's not a technical skill.
Realizing that the iPod had to be thinner was a visionary idea. Making the iPod thinner was a technical feat.
One had the idea, the other had the technical ability (even if they had given up before Jobs pushed them harder).
You can easily identify the wrong thing as the problem then end up trying to hide a symptom instead of fixing the problem. Medicine is notorious for treating symptoms when the underlying problem is usually related to something else like diet or (lack of) exercise.
You can also completely fail to identify an obvious problem such as the games where you end up stuck and having to Google how to progress because the game is poorly designed. This poor design isn't going to be obvious to anybody working on the game every day because they designed and already know the solution but it would come up if somebody else played the game and got stuck.