Comment Re:Ideas are cheap... (Score 1) 735
Isaac Asimov was constantly approached by wannabe writers who always had the next Great Idea [snip]
This is an excellent comparison. In my dark hours, I sometimes dream about abandoning coding and becoming a fiction writer, where instead of slogging through the multiple lifetimes of work it would take me to build the next Google, I just write an exciting fictional story about the guy who did, sell the screenplay rights, and live on an island. That's gotta be way easier than coding, right?
In reality, I am sure that good fiction is as difficult to write as good code. Same problems, different languages. And so it surely is with any expression of ideas in usable forms.