[eugenejen]

It is very hard to grasp what did you mean. But if you are questioning passions for ideas and entrepreneurship, then my feeling is different from yours.

When I first read the post on YC by PG, I understand PG tried to tell people this is not an inclusive list. All ideas put down by PG have a common pattern. It is PG's motto: "making something that people want". And PG also alerted the would-be applicants that not every problem is solvable only by purely engineering or computer science. Some problems require much clever hacks to acquire user bases and break out stereotypes in jaded users' mind. Of courses, some ideas that PG pointed out are traditionally viewed by startups as "suicidal" to get into territory of MS/Google.

I guess you feel frustrated because as a CS student, you probably think about the best things to save the world is to do something CS cool. But in reality, what a CS graduate can do to make people live better is probably to create an application that frustrate end user less than what users are using now. This seems so uncool. It takes more passion to care about my users to make them happy than to make myself happy. I can be happy for creating some cool hacks. But to make my users happier takes me more patience to know what they really want, more thought and effort to figure how can I create a better product. Though Model T is not a Ferrari, but I know my users are happily driving around to make their life better.