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Re:The Positive Programmer by michaelrhansen on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @04:34PM (#5451850)
Just curious - why not jump on the grand ideas now? (I would assume the usual reasons.. financial, time, etc.)
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Re:The Positive Programmer by Swizec on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @05:38PM (#5452160)
Reach. And to an extent money.

Money is easy-ish to get, but reach takes time to build.

MOst importantly though, I don't have any ideas I would consider good. Or possibly ideas I would consider myself able to carry out. Probably both.

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Re:The Positive Programmer by precisioncoder on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:00AM (#5453850)
Maybe try the altucher approach: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/02/how-to-be-the-luckiest-... Basically he picks random topics and writes lots of ideas about them every day in order to train his mind to think in that way.
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