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Discussion on: I spent 30 years coding full-time, then I switched to full-time management and leadership. Ask me anything.

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Lorenzo Pasqualis

Your passion for technology is commendable, and your enthusiasm will bring you far. I have a few recommendations:
1) Simplify the message. The important thing is to describe the problem you are trying to resolve and the value your idea will add. If you can't write both combined on one side of a 3"x5" index card, then you should rethink the idea.
2) Conplexity is not a goal. It is the enemy. A path to wildly complex mutation is doomed. The goal should be simplicity.
3) If people can't understand the ideas, it is not a demonstration that the idea is superior than most people. Simplicity is the ultimate good design. The implementation of the idea might be complex, but you need to separate implementation details from the mix.
4) Is the goal to start a business? Or to create technology? This is a key question to know what the next steps are. If you are trying to start a business, then you should get a sense for how you will monetize the idea, put a prototype together and try to raise money or users or both. If the goal is to create technology then you need to implement it, open source it, demonstrate that it works (ship a free product that uses it) and write a detailed technical paper about it. However, technology ideas with no business validation have a very hard time gaining traction.

Hope this helps.

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gaby-de-wilde

Yes, the question is how to introduce a technology without a business. The only thing I can think of is to get some business to adopt it.

The description here was for you. The "real" description would be something like: Use this module and get subscribers/readers. After all, that is how most use RSS. Implement it and ignore it.