This extract from a recent blog post[1] by the OP suggests he may have a slight touch of the said mentality:
There’s another interesting paradox regarding the people who make many of these social websites, and the people who use them. The people who make them are the programmers. These are the quirky geniuses who took an interest in computer science, math, and other inherently geeky fields from an early age. Their peers looked down on them for this, and as a result they tended to have uneventful social lives. But in their 20′s, they realized there was a killing to be made in online social networks, and so they went to work, armed with the technological know-how to make whatever application their more social peers desired. So what we have is the people with the ability to create, but no understanding of the market, and the people with the understanding of the market, but no ability to create.
While certainly a generalization, the point remains that those who developed an understanding of technological evolution (the computer) tend to have a poor perspective on those whose understanding is limited to biological evolution (humans), and vice versa.
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This extract from a recent blog post[1] by the OP suggests he may have a slight touch of the said mentality:
There’s another interesting paradox regarding the people who make many of these social websites, and the people who use them. The people who make them are the programmers. These are the quirky geniuses who took an interest in computer science, math, and other inherently geeky fields from an early age. Their peers looked down on them for this, and as a result they tended to have uneventful social lives. But in their 20′s, they realized there was a killing to be made in online social networks, and so they went to work, armed with the technological know-how to make whatever application their more social peers desired. So what we have is the people with the ability to create, but no understanding of the market, and the people with the understanding of the market, but no ability to create.
While certainly a generalization, the point remains that those who developed an understanding of technological evolution (the computer) tend to have a poor perspective on those whose understanding is limited to biological evolution (humans), and vice versa.
[1] http://zachjiganti.com/2010/08/01/why-groupon-is-successful-...