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This is somewhat of a thought experiment, thinking is still free, so let’s indulge.
2009, I bought a refurbished ThinkPad, installed Xubuntu, and started coding.
No permission was needed, no subscription. No gatekeeper, and no middleman taking its toll, between me and the future me.
Just idea, code editor, music in my ears and off I went towards a brighter future - a product market fit, or a learning experience.
Sharing was cool. Source code on GitHub. Talking to peers on forums. MVPs to users. Oddball ideas on blogs. We did our thinking in public because of two assumptions:
Ideas are cheap - execution is hard -and- the world ahead is ripe with opportunity.