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Inspire HN: Persistent determination

YC deadline is soon, so I just wanted to give some inspiration to all YC applicants. Hope this will help, or at least, you’ll find it worth reading. First, ask yourself a question: if you failed, then how do you know if you failed because it’s impossible or because you just wasn’t determined enough? Well, really, how do you know that? Every real life case falls into two possible categories: either someone succedeed or not. If he or she falied then there is always a lot of obvious reasons for that, because it’s easy to judge when you’re looking into the past. From formal, scientific point of view one can’t prove something is impossible just because someone who tried failed. I challenge you with the hypothesis that the only reason you can fail is insufficient determination. The great Russian mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov discovered evolutionary epistemology principle. It says that humans

Why it failed

YC deadline is soon, so I just wanted to give some inspiration to all YC applicants. Hope this will help, or at least, you’ll find it worth reading. First, ask yourself a question: if you failed, then how do you know if you failed because it’s impossible or because you just wasn’

Kind
startup
Status
Shut down
Inventor
bloodcarter
Ended
2011
Source
hackernews