Comments on: It’s Not About Startups. It’s about changing the world. http://derekneighbors.com/2009/09/its-not-about-startups-its-about-changing-the-world/ Musings of a Mad Man (@dneighbors) Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:56:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian C http://derekneighbors.com/2009/09/its-not-about-startups-its-about-changing-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-579 Brian C Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:18:28 +0000 http://derekneighbors.com/?p=6024#comment-579 So what is so new about what you're talking about? I hear a lot of slogans and fluffy words, but how does anything you're saying really put you in a different place than the status quo? If you think, as apparently Tyler Hurst does, that Google is the model for creativity, then God help you. Google's just another part of the machine. You need to develop a capacity for fundamental critique of the powers that be, and the way that we all co-operate with them, give then energy and ultimately sustain them. You should know that nothing has fundamentally changed in the economic power structure of the USA through the foreclosure crisis. The machine will be back up and running in no time, unless we're prepared to pay the price of saying "No" to it -- and that price will not be small for any of us. So what is so new about what you’re talking about? I hear a lot of slogans and fluffy words, but how does anything you’re saying really put you in a different place than the status quo? If you think, as apparently Tyler Hurst does, that Google is the model for creativity, then God help you. Google’s just another part of the machine. You need to develop a capacity for fundamental critique of the powers that be, and the way that we all co-operate with them, give then energy and ultimately sustain them. You should know that nothing has fundamentally changed in the economic power structure of the USA through the foreclosure crisis. The machine will be back up and running in no time, unless we’re prepared to pay the price of saying “No” to it — and that price will not be small for any of us.

]]> By: Tyler Hurst http://derekneighbors.com/2009/09/its-not-about-startups-its-about-changing-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Tyler Hurst Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:03:42 +0000 http://derekneighbors.com/?p=6024#comment-572 We must critique ideas, not people. We must be honest, not kind. We must be dream big and act realistically. The world doesn't need another Mint.com, it needs another Google. Stop the hiding. Get out in the open. Share thoughts and ideas. Stop worrying about control or credit. Wealth and success will come, but only to those that have earned it. We must also stop thinking of hard work in terms SOLELY of hours worked, but rather of quality of work accomplished. Make something useful. We must critique ideas, not people. We must be honest, not kind. We must be dream big and act realistically. The world doesn’t need another Mint.com, it needs another Google.

Stop the hiding. Get out in the open. Share thoughts and ideas. Stop worrying about control or credit. Wealth and success will come, but only to those that have earned it.

We must also stop thinking of hard work in terms SOLELY of hours worked, but rather of quality of work accomplished.

Make something useful.

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