Back 10 yrs ago when the ‘net was getting a-rollin’ I had all the dreams of what it is now: http uploads (WebDAV), in-browser OS/applications (AJAX), Web-storage/backup.. you name it, I was dreamin’ it. And that’s a cool thing to know that I was “on to something,” so long as I don’t get bitter over it.

Well, now today Slashdot has an article about
what I was just talking to a Berlin friend about what his company does. There goes that idea.

So it’s not that I’m bitter, but honestly, how are ‘the little guys’ in small business capable of coping? There’s no chance at competing unless ya grab a VC & start hiring a storm of geniuses. (Oddly enough, isn’t this what Mr. Holland’s Opus is about??) The other option is to just hack on your own ideas quietly for your own pleasure, patiently knowing no one else will see them, and by the time you build it, it’ll be passe. It’s heavy unfulfillment in light of the external world, but in light of the internal self, it’s enabling: “I’m a stud.. if only they knew.”