If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site.

Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.

Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.

If something seems possible, that's probably because someone is already doing it. When something seems that it can't possibly work, nobody tries it. Real innovation happens when someone tries anyway, overlooking an obvious flaw, and finds a way to make an idea work.

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.

Common programmer thought pattern: there are only three numbers: 0, 1, and n.