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by darkerside 1511 days ago
Any sufficiently good idea is really hard to communicate but really easy to demonstrate. That means you get a head start, but the next person gets it for free. That head start is your time to build a business with a moat. If you haven't done it by then, the next person will.
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> Any sufficiently good idea is really hard to communicate but really easy to demonstrate.

I'm gonna steal this.

That phrase was his idea.
But it was just communicated. Wait till they demonstrate it.
It's free :)
> Any sufficiently good idea

There are all sorts of good ideas. Some are easy to communicate, some demonstrate, some both, some neither.

They're not sufficiently good for my theorem!