Be dangerous, it's careful out there
Highly competent people go around the world in a state of slight dismay at how sloppy everything is
In our age of distraction, remember:
Your focus is your future https://t.co/oy8jy45fca
"Distribution is essential to the design of the product. If you invent something but you haven't invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business. Superior distribution by itself can create a monopoly, even with no product differentiation. The converse is not true."
Most people who attack or compete with you will be opportunists. So if the thing you're working on is your life's work, all you have to do is keep going, and eventually they'll drop away. Once several generations of them have dropped away you'll even stop caring about new ones.
If your technology is better but potential customers are too set in their ways to switch, use it yourself and compete with them.