[ivanr]

Yes, that's very radical. How will the person who asked the top question know that they're supposed to validate their ideas before they build, for example? And how do you validate your ideas? And how do you figure out what to build and position yourself against competition, etc?

These are complicated things. People who succeed without learning from others do so mostly via timing and luck.

To those with knowledge, it's nothing special. To the rest, it's a daunting black box of pain and frustration.

[aristofun]

This is the whole point - there is no special knowledge there.

All who succeeded did that by being persistent and trying 100s of different “common sense” things until it worked.