[Nervetattoo]

Actually you need to stop earlier, I've found that quite a bit of the stuff that people think they need to have built isn't even close to needed in reality. In fact, building it and shipping it can be a major mistake itself.

So I completely agree on the underlying principle: Dont to _anything_ prematurely, and that first and foremost includes actually writing any code at all.

[shortstuffsushi]

Boy, if you take this a bit too seriously, you're going to end up putting yourself out of a job.

I could write this new product... but the market is already saturated with products that kind of already do this... they probably don't need mine.

The exception to that opinion is social networks. If you think you need to build a new social network, stop yourself and erase any traces of that thought from your mind.

[gbog]

Same with writing a blog post, and commenting it here. We're going Buddhist.