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I am loving reading Paul Graham at the moment. His theme for the past year or so has been to encourage geeks to make buckets of money.

(Paul Graham is a highly advanced geek. You know the spam filter in Gmail and Thunderbird? Paul Graham came up with the original idea.)

"The hard part about figuring out what customers want is figuring out that you need to figure it out ... That's the essence of a startup: having brilliant people do work that's beneath them ... take people so smart that they would in a big company be doing 'research,' and set them to work instead on problems of the most immediate and mundane sort. Think Einstein designing refrigerators."

I'm very smart indeed, smarter than most people I know, but I'm not that smart. Quite a lot of you reading this are way more brilliant than me. But at least I can try to get clues and get there more slowly.

I've been stalled on the business plan for about two weeks now. (I know the next three steps; things have just been rather frantic, with my heavy schedule of job hunting, housework and panicking.) I'm realising I'll need to think on whether I've even got the right idea ... As I write this, arkady is sewing doll clothes, which is a good example of someone of talent doing work beneath them. It's very motivating.