On: Dear John Carmack.

[staunch]

I'm living out my top-choice fantasy already: working on my web startup. Gaming is a secondary love, but if no one else gets around to it I definitely will.

[palish → staunch]

DaVinci tackled a dozen fantasies pretty much simultaneously.

I think you're more capable than you give yourself credit for.

[sarchertech → palish]

Yeah but a lot of what you think of when you think DaVinci never really got past the idea state.

[staunch → palish]

Hah. Da Vinci was a time traveler though. Unfair advantage.

[burgerbrain → palish]

That's like saying that somebody should be pretty good at physics because Einstein was. Juggling lots of ideas at once was pretty much Leonardo da Vinci's thing.

[palish → burgerbrain]

Discouraging people from having confidence in themselves (even when that confidence is unrealistic) is one of the biggest tragedies brought about by modern-day mediums such as HN et al.

I'd rather strike out a dozen times than watch from the stands.