"Bad ideas"

I just read an article - why smart people have bad ideas by paul graham http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html. I can relate to so many mistakes that we made while we were working on couple fire. It's extremely fascinating and totally worth a read!

After reading this article, I'm going to read book by Dale Carnegie on "How to win friends and influence people.

Here are my favorite quotes from the essay:

• I don't think we should discard plunging. Plunging into an idea is a good thing. The solution is at the other end: to realize that having invested time in something doesn't make it good.
• if you're starting a company that will do something cool, the aim had better be to make money and maybe be cool, not to be cool and maybe make money. It's hard enough to make money that you can't do it by accident. Unless it's your first priority, it's unlikely to happen at all.
• A familiar problem issue: of all the things we could do, is this the one with the best chance of making money?