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		marcosdumay on Feb 4, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Plain Email – An app for one-touch email ... Like Columbus, right. Isn't that funny that even the metaphor we use for such kind of stuff is some yahoo that got the radius of Earth wrong and survived just by accident?

hueving on Feb 4, 2016 [–]

That's not a flaw in the metaphor. The whole point is that your plans are likely wrong and that the riches go to the ones who execute rather than the ones that spend all of their time on a perfect plan.

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