Day One

Today is worth celebrating, because today I have nothing to do. As for yesterday, I decided I will do whatever I like for the rest of life. How can I be so arrogant that I think I can decide what I will do for the rest of my life? This absurd question is not so absurd if you think about it for a while. What gives you the power of deciding your own destiny? your super-rich parents? your forgiving girlfriend? your smartass IQ? the very god? or yourself?

Before answering all this questions, I have to confess I am an rather reasonable gentleman, at least I am reasonable when I am not on anything and I am gentle most of the time. Thus, I wouldn't be surprised the first question come to my mind when I told myself that I would like to write was 'how are you gonna support yourself?' The reasonable me would reply with a series of imagined bestsellers and mind-blowing books by Dear Priacyer in the short future which would bring me a rather good fortune. However the second question from the miserable me followed 'But you studied not writing in school!'. I guess now I would have to live with that for the rest of my life.

As most teenage movie starts with a self-description, I would like to follow the tradition. My name is Piracyer. I studied computer science and management in a rather good university. While my fellow classmates either busy killing themselves slowly through endless programming, working their way up through the corporate ladder or plotting shaky startup ideas in the hope of disturbing the existing market in a short sweet home run, I am sitting here determined to do whatever I like for the rest of my life. It would be a beautiful story if I can end it here without going to wash my toilet a few seconds ago.

Of course a story never ends at its introduction.

After reading Graham's "How to Get Startup Ideas"

Paul Graham's "How to Get Startup Ideas" is a great article. It's main idea, as he summarized in the very end, is "Live in the future and build what seems interesting." In simple words, in order to get organic startup ideas, we should become the people who are likely to have good startup ideas, and these people are usually at the leading edge of some rapidly changing field. FYI, Graham did convince me of his theorem after I read the article.

However, several questions come up as I was reading. The first question is why people always look at Facebook, Microsoft and Apple?? Well that's look at what they have in common. First, all these companies are huge and close to our live and were all brought up by grass-root founders. Second, all the companies are in the high-tech industries. Third, all the founders were rich at very young ages. Are these three points correlated? Probably. But, I want to keep in mind that there are many other kinds of entrepreneurship in other industries, like Priceline and Virgin Group, and it's very hard to be as successful as these three companies.

Another question I wanna ask is about 3D printing. It seems to me, 3D printing is a awesome technology, but why it's not popular and unsuccessful?? Maybe it's gonna work as Kickstarter shows a successful pledge of nearly $3M!