On: Ask HN: How to deal with being idea rich, but time poor?

[wallflower]

This article is a bit pithy but true. Ideas aren't worth that much.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2005/08/ideas_are_just...

My advice is do something that you would like your mother or father to excitedly tell their friends about (assuming they are still around).

[DamonOehlman → wallflower]

I think that article does make a nice clear point, and while the ideas aren't worth that much in some regard, being a multiplicative factor is a pretty big deal.