Past Discussion (141 points, 2013, 29 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156215

Related:

The idea maze of personal logging (2016) - pcmonk (136 points, 2017, 46 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13676049

The idea maze for AI startups (2015) - cdixon (108 points, 2023, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36507010

Last night I watched a recent interview with Mark Andreesen where he said how important this essay was to whom they fund at A16Z. He didn't credit Dixon who is a partner at A16Z but in all fairness the interviewer was firing questions at him machine-gun style.